I have a working stopwatch. When I click start button the stopwatch is starting and when I click pause button the stopwatch is paused. What I would like is when I refresh my browser to keep the current time of the stopwatch and continue from there with the same functionality. Or when I echo the stopwatch time from a database to continue from the exact time it was before is saved it.
let showTime = document.querySelector("#output");
let startTimeButton = document.querySelector("#start")
let pauseTimeButton = document.querySelector("#pause")
pauseTimeButton.style.display = "none";
let seconds = 0;
let interval = null;
const timer = () => {
seconds++;
// Get hours
let hours = Math.floor(seconds / 3600);
// Get minutes
let minutes = Math.floor((seconds - hours * 3600) / 60);
// Get seconds
let secs = Math.floor(seconds % 60);
if (hours < 10) {
hours = `0${hours}`;
}
if (minutes < 10) {
minutes = `0${minutes}`;
}
if (secs < 10) {
secs = `0${secs}`;
}
showTime.innerHTML = `${hours}:${minutes}:${secs}`;
};
startTimeButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
pauseTimeButton.style.display = "block";
startTimeButton.style.display = "none";
console.log("START TIME CLICKED");
if (interval) {
return;
}
interval = setInterval(timer, 1000);
});
// Pause function
pauseTimeButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
pauseTimeButton.style.display = "none";
startTimeButton.style.display = "block";
console.log("PAUSE TIME CLICKED");
clearInterval(interval);
interval = null;
});<button id="start">Start</button>
<button id="pause">Pause</button>
<div id="output"></div>>Solution :
You could use localStorage.
In order to save each second passed you could modify your timer function to save to localStorage:
let seconds = 0;
if (localStorage.getItem("stopwatchSeconds") != null) {
seconds = parseInt(localStorage.getItem("stopwatchSeconds"));
}
//...
const timer = () => {
//...
seconds++;
localStorage.setItem("stopwatchSeconds", seconds);
//...
};
//...
I hope this helps.