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Persist javascript variables across pages?
how to exchange variables between two html pages

I am working on creating a “quiz” that allows users to answer questions, then passes their answer and current score to the next page for the next question. I used this article and was able to get the user’s answer to pass through to the next window:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/javascript/article.php/3471111/A-Quick-Tutorial-on-JavaScript-Variable-Passing.htm

The issue is that this passes the information through a form. Once I receive the score on the second page, I need to increment the score if the answer was correct. I can’t figure out how to pass a javascript variable with an html form.

I feel like this should be a relatively easy fix, I’m just stumped.

Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated!
xoxo

Answer 1

There are two obvious ways to maintain state in the browser without requiring that the server remember it between pages:

1. Cookies

2. localStorage

The latter is trivial to implement, but is only available in HTML5.

Note that neither is intended to be secure – a determined page hacker could set either to whatever value they wish.