title: Understanding Local Storage & Cookies in Javascript
body: <p>I have a form on my page with text boxes, radio buttons and drop down menus that ask questions about students. The options selected from these will later be used to make a div containing each student's content. My directions say to save the list to local storage. I'm confused on what exactly this means. I tried looking this up and cookies kept coming up. I thought these were 2 different things. I'm confused on the concept of local storage. I've searched this on Google and Stack and have read what ever I could find related to these topics. I think I need this explained in a simple way rather then reading a textbook definition or answers to questions people have asked about there code relating to cookies and local storage. Can someone explain these 2 topics? Are cookies and local storage the same things? I'm not sure if it's different for other languages but I'm using <strong>Javascript</strong>. </p>