JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<a href="#example"class="menuControl">I want to stay here</a><br />

<a href="#example2">I want to jump too!</a>

<span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span>

<div id="example">Jump to me</div>

<span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span>

<div id="example2">Jump to me</div>

<span class="spacer">&nbsp;</span>

CSS

.spacer
{
   height:800px;
   display:block;
}

JavaScript

var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");

for(var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
    if ( anchors[i].className == "menuControl" ) {
        anchors[i].setAttribute("onclick", "return false");
    }
    
}