# Local storage:

**Local Storage**

Local storage is used to persist data in the browser level.

Data is not lost even after the browser is closed, or even after the OS is rebooted.

It has 5MB of memory capacity.

Local storage has four methods:

**setItem:**

```javascript
localStorage.setItem(key, value)
localStorage.setItem("name", "Murali")
//stores the data in browser
```

**getItem:**

```javascript
localStorage.getItem("name")
//O/p: Murali
//This method is Retrieves the data from local Storage
```

**removeItem:**

```javascript
localStorage.removeItem("name")
//This is method is used to remove the value stored in the memory in reference to key.
```

**clear():**

```javascript
localStorage.clear()
//This method is used to clear all the values stored in localstorage.
```