WP menu is not working as expected

Question

Super newb question here, but my brian is not working tonight. I'm using a provided JS script on a wordpress site to make a single-page website menu scroll to the relevant section.

I have a menu with options 'Home' 'People' 'Info' 'Contact'

These links are structured like so: " http://sample.com/#home "

<!-- Navigation Menu -->
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navigation">
  <ul id="menu-menu-1" class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"><li id="menu-item-15"   class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-15">
<a href="http://sample.com/#home">Home</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-51" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-        item-51">
<a href="http://sample.com/#people">People</a></li>
<li id="menu-item-14" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom menu-item-14">
 <a href="http://sample.com/#info">Info</a></li>
 <li id="menu-item-54" class="menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom  menu-item-54">
 <a href="http://sample.com/#contact">Contact</a></li>
 </ul>    
   </div>
<!-- End Navigation Menu -->

The JS follows below.

 //Navigation Scrolling
 $('#navigation a[href*=#]').click(function() {
if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') 
&& location.hostname == this.hostname) {
  var target = $(this.hash);
  target = target.length ? target : $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
  if (target.length) {
    $('html,body').animate({
      scrollTop: target.offset().top
    }, 1000);
    return false;
  }
}
});

The problem: When clicking the menu-links, the page reloads and shows the relevant section.

I would like the menu items to scroll to the relevant section instead.

Thanks.

TL;DR Menu items reload page instead of scrolling to relevant section. JS above.

Answer 1

Just prevent the default functionality of the anchor tag by using event.preventDefault() ,

 $('#navigation a[href*=#]').click(function(e) {
   e.preventDefault();
   //Rest of your code