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jQuery Mobile Cookbook

By : Chetan Jain
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jQuery Mobile Cookbook

By: Chetan Jain

Overview of this book

jQuery Mobile is an award winning, HTML5/CSS3 based open source cross-platform UI framework. It offers a very cool and highly customizable UX. It is built on the popular jQuery library and uses declarative coding making it easy to use and learn. It is the market leader today considering the numerous browsers and platforms that it supports."jQuery Mobile Cookbook" presents over a hundred recipes written in a simple and easy manner. You can quickly learn and start writing code immediately. Advanced topics such as using scripts to manipulate, customize, and extend the framework are also covered. These tips address your common everyday problems. The book is very handy for both beginner and experienced jQuery Mobile developers.You start by developing simple apps using various controls and learn to customize them. Later you explore using advanced aspects like configurations, events, and methods.Develop single and multi-page applications. Use caching to boost performance. Use custom transitions, icon sprites, styles, and themes. Learn advanced features like configurations, events, and methods. Explore future trends by using HTML5 new features and semantics with jQuery Mobile."jQuery Mobile Cookbook" is an easy read and is packed with practical tips and screenshots.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery Mobile Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using local and session storage


Cookies was the mechanism used to store client-side information earlier. But a cookie can only store up to 4 KB of data, which is sent to the server with every single request. Web Storage is the client-side storage standard introduced with HTML5. It has two types: Local Storage and Session Storage . Data stored in Session Storage is available till the user's session is active, and is lost once the session ends. Local Storage data is persisted across sessions. This recipe shows you how to use Local Storage and Session Storage.

Getting ready

Copy the full code of this recipe from the code/11/storage folder. You can launch this code using the URL: http://localhost:8080/11/storage/main.html.

How to do it...

The steps to be followed are:

  1. Create main.html with its page content having three text fields and a Save button:

    <div data-role='content'>
      <div data-role='fieldcontain'>
        <label for='nostore'>No Storage</label>
        <input type...