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Client-side Autosave Using localStorage with jQuery in textarea

JavaScript

autosave.js Raw #

$(document).ready(function() {

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//
// Recovery Below
//
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  // Retrieve the object from storage onReady
  var autosave = localStorage.getItem('file');

  // parses the string (btw. its UTF-8)
  var text = JSON.parse(autosave);

  //modifies the textarea with the id="inputTextArea" 
  $("textarea#inputTextArea").val(text);

////////////////////////
//
//  Autosaver below
//
////////////////////////

  // Autosave on keystroke works in offline mode
  $("textarea#inputTextArea").change (function(){

     // pulls the value from the textarea
     var file = $('textarea#inputTextArea').val();

     // sets the file string to hold the data
     localStorage.setItem('file', JSON.stringify(file));
  });

});