How to save an image to localStorage and display it on the next page?
You could serialize the image into a Data URI. There's a tutorial in this blog post. That will produce a string you can store in local storage. Then on the next page, use the data uri as the source of the image.
I wrote a little 2,2kb library of saving image in localStorage JQueryImageCaching Usage:
<img data-src="path/to/image">
<script>
$('img').imageCaching();
</script>
To whoever also needs this problem solved:
Firstly, I grab my image with getElementByID
, and save the image as a Base64. Then I save the Base64 string as my localStorage
value.
bannerImage = document.getElementById('bannerImg');
imgData = getBase64Image(bannerImage);
localStorage.setItem("imgData", imgData);
Here is the function that converts the image to a Base64 string:
function getBase64Image(img) {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = img.width;
canvas.height = img.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
return dataURL.replace(/^data:image\/(png|jpg);base64,/, "");
}
Then, on my next page I created an image with a blank src
like so:
<img src="" id="tableBanner" />
And straight when the page loads, I use these next three lines to get the Base64 string from localStorage
, and apply it to the image with the blank src
I created:
var dataImage = localStorage.getItem('imgData');
bannerImg = document.getElementById('tableBanner');
bannerImg.src = "data:image/png;base64," + dataImage;
Tested it in quite a few different browsers and versions, and it seems to work quite well.