Please see the comments in source for explanation.
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>localStorage()</title> <script class="jsbin" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script> </head> <body> <!-- create input elements --> E-mail: <input type="email" name="user_email" id="email"/ > <br /> First Name: <input type="text" name="f_name" id="fname"/ > <br /> Last Name: <input type="text" name="l_name" id="lname"/ > <br /> <input type="submit" id="submit" /> <input type="button" value="Remove localstorage" id="reset" /> <br /><br /> <!-- show inserted values --> <div id="show"></div> <script> $(function() { var edit = document.getElementById('submit'); var reset = document.getElementById('reset'); $(edit).click(function() { // get data var email = document.getElementById('email').value; var fname = document.getElementById('fname').value; var lname = document.getElementById('lname').value; var newDate = new Date(); var itemId = newDate.getTime(); var values = new Array(); //push each value into our values array values.push(email); values.push(fname); values.push(lname); // check if localStorage is supported by browser if (typeof(localStorage) == 'undefined' ) { alert('Your browser does not support HTML5 localStorage. Try upgrading.'); }else{ //store the item in the database try { localStorage.setItem(itemId, values.join(";")); window.location.href=window.location.href; } catch (e) { if (e == QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR) { alert("Quota exceeded!"); } } } }); // when the page loads var innerhtml; innerhtml ="<table border=\"1\"><tr><td>Email</td><td>Firstname</td><td>Lastname</td></tr>"; for (i=0;i<localStorage.length;i++){ var itemKey = localStorage.key(i); var values = localStorage.getItem(itemKey); //values currently look like 'name@organization;firstname;lastname' so split them values = values.split(";"); var emails = values[0]; var fnames = values[1]; var lnames = values[2]; innerhtml = innerhtml + "<tr><td>" + emails + "</td><td>" + fnames + "</td><td>" + lnames + "</td></tr>"; } innerhtml = innerhtml + "</table>"; document.getElementById("show").innerHTML=innerhtml; // clear local database $(reset).click(function() { localStorage.clear(); window.location.href=window.location.href; } ) });</script> </body> </html>