Keep a JavaScript variables value after a page refresh? [closed]

Answer 1

You can use $.cookie("key", value) to set the value, and $.cookie("key") to get the saved value.

EDIT: A small tutorial on how you use cookies in jQuery: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/jquery-cookies/

Answer 2

You can store it in a cookie. Or use local storage if supported by the browser.

Answer 3

You can place that value in a cookie.

The complete list of alternatives is

• Standard HTTP cookies
• Local Shared Objects (Flash cookies)
• Silverlight Isolated Storage
• Storing cookies in RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas ag to read pixels (cookies) back out
• Storing cookies in Web history
• Storing cookies in HTTP ETags
• Storing cookies in Web cache
• window.name caching
• Internet Explorer userData storage
• HTML5 Session Storage
• HTML5 Local Storage
• HTML5 Global Storage
• HTML5 Database Storage via SQLite

Evercookie

Answer 4

Cookies

The best solution is to use cookies. A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is usually a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website (from Wikipedia).

Using a cookie you can save the state and later read it and use it.

With jQuery it is very easy to use cookies.

To set:

$.cookie("var", "10");

To get:

$.cookie("var")

To delete:

$.cookie("var", null);

Local Storage

When you want to save localy great amount of data, you have another opportunity — to use local storage (since HTML5). You can do it directly using JavaScript or using one of available jQuery plugins.

for example, with totalStorage:

var scores = new Array();
scores.push({'name':'A', points:10});
scores.push({'name':'B', points:20});
scores.push({'name':'C', points:0});
$.totalStorage('scores', scores);