Any recommendations on a jquery/js plugin that saves form fields in the scenario where the user left the form or page they can come back and still have the values from when they left. I wrote up some thing for a small form on an old site using sessionStorage api but I need something that can work with any form or perhaps multiple forms at once. any good plugins out there?

Just use localStorage

you can save the value of the field in a cookie. then populate the fields value if there is a value for that specific field in the cookie.

I second localStorage. Straightforward and no plugins necessary. MDN has solid documentation.

@noonesboy @champion01 i wrote something once for a small form on an old site that used sessionStorage. I wrote this in a quick pinch with not worrying about if it was best or most effecient way to do it. Now that i have more free time id like to go back and change/optimize it because im a bit sure that this is sloppy and likely to not function with other libraries. That being said, heres the code:

https://gist.github.com/surgiie/...

@surgiie I'm on my phone but the code looks good.

I typically work in angular, and for this I would make a directive.

@champion01 https://github.com/surgiie/...

I made some enhancements. Devs can define either session or local storage via custom data atttribute.