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Asked: 2026-06-13T21:40:28+00:00

Im trying something simple below. I want to accept user input for their name

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Im trying something simple below. I want to accept user input for their name click a button save it and when the app loads a second time it displays the name.

Where am I going wrong below?

Do i need to put this code block somewhere else?

 <script type="text/javascript">

$(function(){
$('#saveButton').click(function() {
        window.localStorage.setItem("name", $('#name').val());
});
    $('#newpage').live('pageshow', function() {
        var personName = window.localStorage.getItem("name");
        if(personName.length>0){
                $('#name').val(personName);
        }
    });

});
</script>

Full html file

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width, height=device-height, target-densitydpi=device-dpi" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="jquery.mobile-1.2.0.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.mobile-1.2.0.js"></script>


<script type="text/javascript">

$(function(){
$('#saveButton').click(function() {
        window.localStorage.setItem("name", $('#name').val());
});
    $('#newpage').live('pageshow', function() {
        var personName = window.localStorage.getItem("name");
        if(personName.length>0){
                $('#name').val(personName);
        }
    });

});
</script>


<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="home" data-role="page">
    <div data-role="header">
        <h1>
            Home Page</h1>
    </div>
    <div data-role="content">
        hello Phone Gap and JQuery Mobile! <a href="#newpage" data-role="button">new page</a>
    </div>
    <div data-role="footer" data-position="fixed">
        <h4>
            footer</h4>
    </div>
</div>


<div id="newpage" data-role="page">
    <div data-role="header">
        <h1>
            new Page</h1>
    </div>
    <div data-role="content">
        <label for="name">what is your name?</label>
        <input id="name" type="text" name="name" value="" />
        <a id="saveButton" href="" data-role="button">Save</a>
    </div>
    <div data-role="footer" data-position="fixed">
        <h4>
            footer</h4>
    </div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="cordova-2.1.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/index.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    app.initialize();
</script>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, you need to place the button click event hookup in the pageinit event – they even specify this in the docs 

    $(document).on("pageinit","#newpage",function(){
    $('#saveButton').click(function() {
        localStorage.setItem("name", $('#name').val());
    });
});


$(document).on('pageshow','#newpage', function() {
    var personName = localStorage.getItem("name");
    if(personName.length>0){
            $('#name').val(personName);
    }
});

    For iOS device testing: In case your changes do not reflect on your device, make sure to touch your files before you deploy. Phonegap’s default project template already does this, but their command does not work for me. See my answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12707386/561545

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