Gilbert Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Hi all, I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of the window object and the document object relationship. I've read some really good explanations in stackoverflow and others. I have a pretty good grasp of it so I tried an experiment. If the window object opens in the browser, and then the document object opens in the window, then if I change the document, will the window object remain the same. I tried make 2 simple html's - in the first I set a variable like window.myVar = "myValue";. I was able to change the value with a button so it was working fine, and then I used an <a> href to change to a different document. I tried to reference the window.myVar but it came back 'undefined'. If you change documents in a window, does the document always come with a new window, or am I doing something wrong here? Like I said, I've read a lot about the window and document object, but I couldn't see that this was addressed. Thank You for any response.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingolme Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 When you click on a link it opens a new page with an entirely new Javascript context, everything is lost unless it is saved in a cookie or storage. You can find information about storage here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Storage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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