How can I maintain state in browser JavaScript across different page loads from the same site?
<p>I need to do something very simple, i.e. maintain which panel bar item is highlighted, across different page loads. I'm using this as a menu, and it looks good with the selected menu item highlighted as soon as I click it, when when the link (page) for that menu item returns, the menu is reloaded and I lose this.</p>

<p>I don't really want to use ajax calls to manage session variables just for this if I can keep in local, but where else can I store this menu state?</p>
