Make text input fields remember previously entered data

Question

My text inputs seem not to remember values that have been typed before. For example, many websites that I don\'t even have an account on, but have, for example entered my email

Answer 1

some browsers adamantly refused to remember an input until i "remembered it manually" via (ab)using localStorage... this worked for me:

    {
        // hack to remember last error id on page refresh
        // can't believe i have to do this, but my browser don't want to remember it itself, 
        // ... not sure why
        let $=document.querySelector.bind(document);
        let errorid_element=$("#errorlog_id");
        let rememberHack=function(){
            localStorage.setItem("last_id_remember_hack",errorid_element.value);
        };
        errorid_element.addEventListener("input",rememberHack);
        errorid_element.addEventListener("change",rememberHack);
        errorid_element.value = localStorage.getItem("last_id_remember_hack");
    }