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Created January 19, 2012 13:50
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Client-side Autosave Using localStorage with jQuery in textarea
$(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
//
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// 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));
});
});
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This plugin is a much simpler way to accomplish what this Gist does. Not dissing just helping out others who may stumble here! https://github.com/jas-/jQuery.handleStorage/

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