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.navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:HTML" title="Template:HTML"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:HTML" title="Template talk:HTML"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:HTML" title="Special:EditPage/Template:HTML"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Web storage</b>, sometimes known as <b>DOM storage</b> (<a href="/wiki/Document_Object_Model" title="Document Object Model">Document Object Model</a> storage), is a standard <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a> API provided by <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browsers</a>. It enables <a href="/wiki/Website" title="Website">websites</a> to store <a href="/wiki/Persistence_(computer_science)" title="Persistence (computer science)">persistent</a> data on users' devices similar to <a href="/wiki/HTTP_cookie" title="HTTP cookie">cookies</a>, but with much larger capacity<sup id="cite_ref-dev-opera-ws_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dev-opera-ws-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and no information sent in <a href="/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of HTTP headers">HTTP headers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are two main web storage types: local storage and session storage, behaving similarly to <a href="/wiki/Persistent_cookie" class="mw-redirect" title="Persistent cookie">persistent cookies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Session_cookie" class="mw-redirect" title="Session cookie">session cookies</a> respectively. Web Storage is standardized by the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium" title="World Wide Web Consortium">World Wide Web Consortium</a> (W3C)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/WHATWG" title="WHATWG">WHATWG</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is supported by all major browsers. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_storage&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Web storage differs from cookies in some key ways. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Purpose">Purpose</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_storage&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Purpose"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cookies are intended for communication with servers; they are automatically added to all requests and can be accessed by both the server and client-side. Web storage falls exclusively under the purview of <a href="/wiki/Client-side_scripting" class="mw-redirect" title="Client-side scripting">client-side scripting</a>. Web storage data is not automatically transmitted to the server in every HTTP request, and a web server can't directly write to Web storage. However, either of these effects can be achieved with explicit client-side scripts, allowing for fine-tuning the server's desired interaction. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Storage_size">Storage size</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_storage&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Storage size"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cookies are restricted to 4 kilobytes. Web storage provides far greater storage capacity: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)" title="Opera (web browser)">Opera</a> 10.50+ allows 5 MB<sup id="cite_ref-dev-opera-ws_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dev-opera-ws-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)" title="Safari (web browser)">Safari</a> 8 allows 5 MB<sup id="cite_ref-html5rocks-quota-research_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-html5rocks-quota-research-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firefox" title="Firefox">Firefox</a> 34 allows 10 MB<sup id="cite_ref-html5rocks-quota-research_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-html5rocks-quota-research-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (formerly 5 MB per <a href="/wiki/Same-origin_policy" title="Same-origin policy">origin</a> in 2007<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a> allows 10 MB per origin (formerly 5 MB per origin)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Explorer" title="Internet Explorer">Internet Explorer</a> allows 10 MB per storage area<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Local_and_session_storage">Local and session storage</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_storage&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Local and session storage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Web storage offers two different storage areas—local storage and session storage—which differ in scope and lifetime. Data placed in local storage is per origin—the combination of protocol, host name, and port number as defined in the <a href="/wiki/Same-origin_policy" title="Same-origin policy">same-origin policy</a>. The data is available to all scripts loaded from pages from the same origin that previously stored the data and persists after the browser is closed. 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Session storage is both per-origin and per-instance (per-window or per-tab) and is limited to the lifetime of the instance. Session storage is intended to allow separate instances of the same web app to run in different windows without interfering with each other, a use case that's not well supported by cookies.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interface_and_data_model">Interface and data model</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_storage&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Interface and data model"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Web storage provides a better programmatic interface than cookies because it exposes an <a href="/wiki/Associative_array" title="Associative array">associative array</a> <a href="/wiki/Data_model" title="Data model">data model</a> where the keys and values are both <a href="/wiki/String_(computer_science)" title="String (computer science)">strings</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_storage&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Browsers that support web storage have the global objects <code>sessionStorage</code> and <code>localStorage</code> declared at the window level. The following <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a> code can be used on these browsers to trigger web storage behavior:</p><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="c1">// Store value on browser for duration of the session</span> <span class="nx">sessionStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">setItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'value'</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// Retrieve value (gets deleted when browser is closed and re-opened) ...</span> <span class="nx">alert</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">sessionStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">));</span> <span class="c1">// Store value on the browser beyond the duration of the session</span> <span class="nx">localStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">setItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'value'</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="c1">// Retrieve value (persists even after closing and re-opening the browser)</span> <span class="nx">alert</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">localStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">));</span> </pre></div><p>Only strings can be stored via the Storage API.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Attempting to store a different data type will result in an automatic conversion into a string in most browsers. Conversion into <a href="/wiki/JSON" title="JSON">JSON</a>, however, allows for effective storage of JavaScript objects. </p><div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-javascript mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="c1">// Store an object instead of a string</span> <span class="nx">localStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">setItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nx">name</span><span class="o">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'value'</span><span class="p">});</span> <span class="nx">alert</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="ow">typeof</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">localStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">));</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// string</span> <span class="c1">// Store an integer instead of a string</span> <span class="nx">localStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">setItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="mf">1</span><span class="p">);</span> <span class="nx">alert</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="ow">typeof</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nx">localStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">));</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// string</span> <span class="c1">// Store an object using JSON</span> <span class="nx">localStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">setItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nb">JSON</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">stringify</span><span class="p">({</span><span class="nx">name</span><span class="o">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">'value'</span><span class="p">}));</span> <span class="nx">alert</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">JSON</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">parse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">localStorage</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">getItem</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'key'</span><span class="p">)).</span><span class="nx">name</span><span class="p">);</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">// value</span> </pre></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nomenclature">Nomenclature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_storage&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Nomenclature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The W3C draft is titled "Web Storage". "DOM storage" has also been a commonly used name, though it is becoming less so; for example the "DOM Storage" web articles of the Mozilla and Microsoft developer sites have been replaced with "Web Storage" articles.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The "DOM" in DOM storage does not literally refer to the <a href="/wiki/Document_Object_Model" title="Document Object Model">Document Object Model</a>. According to the W3C, "The term DOM is used to refer to the API set made available to scripts in Web applications, and does not necessarily imply the existence of an actual Document object..."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Web_storage_management">Web storage management</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Web_storage&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Web storage management"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Storage of web storage objects is enabled by default in current versions of all supporting web browsers, with browser vendors providing ways for users natively to enable or disable web storage, or clear the web storage "cache".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar controls over web storage are also available through 3rd party <a href="/wiki/Browser_extension" title="Browser extension">browser extensions</a>. Each browser stores Web storage objects differently: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Firefox" title="Firefox">Firefox</a> saves Web storage objects in a <a href="/wiki/SQLite" title="SQLite">SQLite</a> file called <code>webappsstore.sqlite</code> in the user's profile folder. <sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a> records Web storage data in a <a href="/wiki/SQLite" title="SQLite">SQLite</a> file in the user's profile. 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