The read-only localStorage
property allows you to access a Storage
object for the Document
's origin; the stored data is saved across browser sessions. localStorage
is similar to sessionStorage
, except that while data stored in localStorage
has no expiration time, data stored in sessionStorage
gets cleared when the page session ends — that is, when the page is closed. (Data in a localStorage
object created in a "private browsing" or "incognito" session is cleared when the last "private" tab is closed.)
Data stored in either localStorage
is specific to the protocol of the page. In particular, data stored by a script on a site accessed with HTTP (e.g., http://example.com) is put in a different localStorage
object from the same site accessed with HTTPS (e.g., https://example.com).
The keys and the values are always in the UTF-16 DOMString
format, which uses two bytes per character. As with objects, integer keys are automatically converted to strings.
Syntax
myStorage = window.localStorage;
Value
A Storage
object which can be used to access the current origin's local storage space.
Exceptions
SecurityError
- The request violates a policy decision, or the origin is not a valid scheme/host/port tuple (this can happen if the origin uses the
file:
ordata:
scheme, for example). For example, the user may have their browser configured to deny permission to persist data for the specified origin.
Example
The following snippet accesses the current domain's local Storage
object and adds a data item to it using Storage.setItem()
.
localStorage.setItem('myCat', 'Tom');
The syntax for reading the localStorage
item is as follows:
const cat = localStorage.getItem('myCat');
The syntax for removing the localStorage
item is as follows:
localStorage.removeItem('myCat');
The syntax for removing all the localStorage
items is as follows:
localStorage.clear();
Note: Please refer to the Using the Web Storage API article for a full example.
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
HTML Living Standard The definition of 'localStorage' in that specification. |
Living Standard |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
localStorage | Chrome Full support 4 | Edge Full support 12 | Firefox Full support 3.5 | IE Full support 8 | Opera Full support 10.5 | Safari Full support 4 | WebView Android Full support ≤37 | Chrome Android Full support 18 | Firefox Android Full support 4 | Opera Android Full support 11 | Safari iOS Full support 3.2 | Samsung Internet Android Full support 1.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support