freeCodeCamp/guide/english/html/html5-web-storage/index.md

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title: HTML5 Web Storage
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## HTML5 Web Storage

With web storage, web applications can store data locally within the user's browser. Web storage allows web applications to store up to 5MB of information in browser storage per origin (per domain and protocol).

### Types of Web Storage

There are two objects for storing data on the client:

`window.localStorage`: stores data with no expiration date and lives until removed.

```javascript
// Store Item
localStorage.setItem("foo", "bar");

// Get Item
localStorage.getItem("foo"); //returns "bar"
```

`window.sessionStorage`: stores data for one session, where data is lost when the browser / browser tab is closed.

```javascript
// Store Item
sessionStorage.setItem("foo", "bar");

// Get Item
sessionStorage.getItem("foo"); //returns "bar"
```
Example explained:
Create a localStorage name/value pair with name="foo" and value="bar"
Retrieve the value of "foo" and insert it into the element with id="foo"

Since the current implementation only supports string-to-string mappings, you need to serialize and de-serialize other data structures. 

You can do so using JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse().

For e.g. for the given JSON

```
var jsonObject = { 'one': 1, 'two': 2, 'three': 3 };
```

We first convert the JSON object to string and save in the local storage:

```
localStorage.setItem('jsonObjectString', JSON.stringify(jsonObject));
```

To get the JSON object from the string stored in local storage:
```
var jsonObject = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('jsonObjectString'));
```

#### More Information:

<a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>MDN</a>
<a href='https://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/storage' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>HTML5 Rocks</a>
<a href='https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>W3 Schools</a>