I'm developing an extension for Google Chrome, and have run into some trouble.I created an options.html page and added it to the manifest.json file.The page shows properly.
I saved the options, and then went back to the page on which the extension is supposed to run.
Unfortunately, the Local storage for the options was returning a 'null' instead of the option. If I set the local storage option directly from the extension's JS script, it works fine but not if it was set from the options page.
Any idea how i can access the options.html local storage values from my Javascript file in the extension?
have you set them using either:
localStorage["var"]=data;
or
localStorage.var=data;
and are you loading them using
var myvar = localStorage.var;
You can see the API here
The correct method is:
if (typeof(localStorage) == ‘undefined’ ) {
alert(‘Your browser does not support HTML5 localStorage. Try upgrading.’);
}
else {
try {
localStorage.setItem(“name”, “Hello World!”); //saves to the database, “key”, “value”
}
catch (e) {
if (e == QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR) {
alert(‘Quota exceeded!’); //data wasn’t successfully saved due to quota exceed so throw an error
}
}
document.write(localStorage.getItem(“name”)); //Hello World!
localStorage.removeItem(“name”); //deletes the matching item from the database
}
REFERENCE: http://html5tutorial.net/tutorials/working-with-html5-localstorage.html