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title: HTML5 Web Storage
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---
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## HTML5 Web Storage
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Web storage allows web applications to store up to 5MB of information in browser storage per origin (per domain and protocol).
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### Types of Web Storage
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There are two objects for storing data on the client:
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`window.localStorage`: stores data with no expiration date and lives until removed.
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```javascript
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// Store Item
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localStorage.setItem("foo", "bar");
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// Get Item
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localStorage.getItem("foo"); //returns "bar"
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```
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`window.sessionStorage`: stores data for one session, where data is lost when the browser / browser tab is closed.
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```javascript
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// Store Item
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sessionStorage.setItem("foo", "bar");
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// Get Item
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sessionStorage.getItem("foo"); //returns "bar"
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```
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Since the current implementation only supports string-to-string mappings, you need to serialize and de-serialize other data structures.
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You can do so using JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse().
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For e.g. for the given JSON
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```
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var jsonObject = { 'one': 1, 'two': 2, 'three': 3 };
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```
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We first convert the JSON object to string and save in the local storage:
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```
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localStorage.setItem('jsonObjectString', JSON.stringify(jsonObject));
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```
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To get the JSON object from the string stored in local storage:
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```
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var jsonObject = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('jsonObjectString'));
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```
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#### More Information:
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<a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/localStorage' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>MDN</a>
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<a href='https://www.html5rocks.com/en/features/storage' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>HTML5 Rocks</a>
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<a href='https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>W3 Schools</a>
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