So I\'m rather new to JavaScript and I would love some help getting this code to work. I\'ve looked at multiple other posts talking about session storage as well as if/else
Edit: Clearly the answer above is much better than what i provided. I'll leave this here for future viewers - maybe the way I phrased things help someone sometime.
Taylor,
Two things.
sessionStorage()
is unique to each page/tab. From the docs "Opening a page in a new tab or window will cause a new session to be initiated"
window.onload
is expecting a function. You're just concatenating a string.
If you find a different way to pass information from one page to another (you could stuff it in the URL) your new color function should look something like this:
<script>
window.onload = writeColor(sessionStorage.colorVar);
function writeColor(color) {
document.write("Your color is " + color + "!")
}
</script>
You can't set window.onload to be a string; you have to point it directly to a function.
I would suggest creating a new function (call it writeColor) that contains if
statements based on the value of sessionStorage.colorVar
; then you can do window.onload=writeColor;
Alternately, change your window.onload line to window.onload = window[sessionStorage.colorVar + 'Write'];
which will grab your function from the global scope and assign it to window.onload.
You can pass sessionStorage
as as query string at href
of <a>
element; use location.search
at window.onload
event at Page2.html
Page1.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
<script src="script.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="Page2.html" data-color="red" onclick="color(this)">Set color to red</a>
<a href="Page2.html" data-color="blue" onclick="color(this)">Set color to blue</a>
<a href="Page2.html" data-color="green" onclick="color(this)">Set color to green</a>
<script>
function color(elem) {
event.preventDefault();
sessionStorage.setItem("colorVar", elem.dataset.color);
location.href = elem.href + "?colorVar=" + sessionStorage.getItem("colorVar");
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
at Page2.html
<script>
window.onload = function() {
document.write("Your color is " + location.search.split("=").pop())
}
</script>
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