Interview Question

What is sessionStorage?

sessionStorage stores origin-scoped strings for one page session.

💡 Concept ✅ Quick Revision ⚡ JavaScript

Answer

sessionStorage provides string key/value storage scoped to an origin and top-level browsing context. • Each tab or top-level context has its own page session. • Values are stored as strings. • The storage normally lasts for the page session.

Example

Code

sessionStorage.setItem('step', '2');
console.log(sessionStorage.getItem('step'));

Output

Quick Revision

sessionStorage stores origin-scoped strings for one page session.

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