How to rewrite text in URL?

Question

JavaScript

Good evening!

When creating an "object" in a step-by-step form, when going to the next step, I add to the url #step-2 , the
link turns out like this: site.local/object/create#step-2
there was a problem, at the next step it is not clear how to replace 2 with 3?
given that there can be many steps in the form (up to 7) and some can be skipped, it turns out that simply replacing 2 with 3 will not work, I tried regular expressions, but so far I can’t figure out what’s what.

Answer 1

Change the hash, not the whole url:

location.hash = "#2";
location.hash = "#3";