Problem with page anchor links coming from another page

Hi there,

The homepage of my website has different sections with section anchors. From the menu, you can smootly switch between the sections on the homepage and that part works fine.

The menu item ‘Over WOMB project’ has the anchor link #watis
The menu item ‘Resultaten’ has the link #resultaten
The menu item ‘Laatste nieuws’ has the link ‘#nieuws’
The menu item ‘Contact’ leads to a seperate contact page and from the ‘#nieuws’ section I want to make a link to a seperate blog page.

The problem I’m facing is that it’s apparently not possible to navigate from a seperate page (like ‘Contact’) to a homepage section. The only way to achieve that is by changing the anchor into a complete link with anchor (e.g. https://www.womb-project.com#watis instead of just #watis). But this leads to ‘jumping’ to the sections rather than smooth scrolling and doesn’t look nice.

Could you please advice me on how I can achieve smooth scrolling to section anchor links and, at the same time, the possibility to navigate from a seperate sub-page back to one of the homepage sections.

Thanks for you reply in advance. Kind regards,

Michiel