What data is stored in browser?

What is in browser storage?

April 30th 2020. In HTML 5 we have a new feature called Local Storage which is also known as Web Storage or Browser Storage. This feature allow web applications to store data locally on the user's browser. Before Web Storage, Browser Cookies were supposed to hold the application data such as login details and password.

Can we store data in browser?

Cookies, local storage, and session storage Sometimes, it is better to access data from the browser rather than sending requests to the server. The 3 ways to store data in the browser are Cookies, Local Storage, and Session Storage. Depending on the needs any one of them is used to store data in the browser.

What types of data can web storage store?

Web storage supports persistent data storage, similar to cookies but with a greatly enhanced capacity and no information sent in the HTTP request header. There are two main web storage types: local storage and session storage, behaving similarly to persistent cookies and session cookies respectively.

How is data stored in a website?

Most major modern web sites are dynamic — they store data on the server using some kind of database (server-side storage), then run server-side code to retrieve needed data, insert it into static page templates, and serve the resulting HTML to the client to be displayed by the user's browser.