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Persist form data between page refreshes
From this thread:
I had just written a long feedback in the other thread. Then I accidentally refreshed the page and lost all that I’ve written 😅 I guess we could rely on localStorage to prevent that.
That might be an issue if not implemented carefully on ‘edit’ pages, because maybe users will refresh their page exactly to discard the changes. But it should be more straightforward to implement for ‘new’ actions, as we’d only have to store keys such as “new-thread-title” and “new-thread-content” and then discard the entry once the form is submit.
This comment seems to suggest we can use
autocomplete="on"for this. It doesn’t feel right, but I’ll give it a try.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14420624/how-to-keep-changed-form-content-when-leaving-and-going-back-to-https-page-wor