Prevent Default Behaviour of Hashed Anchor Tag with jQuery

Way back in the day, I use to always set up my event triggering anchor tags a certain way to prevent their default behaviour of having to click-through to a URL or named anchor:

Trigger

Usually, a more simple approach was to use a simple hash:

Trigger

That’s the way I should’ve been doing it, but I really hated how it always made the browser window jump to the top. Solving that wasn’t too complicated. It just took a bit of jQuery.

With that code in place, the browser no longer jumps to the top when using a hashed anchor tag.