---
title: "Chris’ Corner: Remember <me>"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/chris-corner-remember-me--91nn463lk
source_url: https://blog.codepen.io/2026/08/24/chris-corner-remember-me
type: article
source: "CodePen"
published: 2026-08-24T18:10:36.273Z
updated: 2026-08-24T18:10:59.870Z
tags: ["webdev", "javascript", "html", "web-components"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
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# Chris’ Corner: Remember <me>

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## Summary

A roundup exploring form-persistence web components: Aaron Gustafson's form-saver and David Darnes' storage-form, the latter tweaked with a small monkey patch to always save on the change event rather than only on submit. Also touches on ongoing discussion around native HTML templating (referencing a web-frameworks-cg GitHub discussion and Scott Jehl's data binding proposal), plus a link to an HTML lists deep dive.

## Full article

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## Questions this post answers

### How can I make an HTML form automatically save its data to localStorage as the user types, even if it has a submit button?

You can wrap the form in a small web component that listens for the change event on the form and saves its values to localStorage, rather than only saving on submit. David Darnes' storage-form component normally only saves on change when there's no submit button, but forcing the eventType to always be "change" (instead of conditionally checking for a submitter) makes it save automatically regardless of whether a submit button exists.

_daily.dev surfaces practical web component patterns like this for developers building resilient forms._

### Is there a native HTML way to do templating like JSX or Handlebars without a JavaScript framework?

Not yet as a finished standard, but it's an active area of discussion. Scott Jehl has proposed a data binding idea for native HTML, and there's an open GitHub discussion in the web-frameworks-cg group exploring native HTML templating so developers could write things like {blog_post.title} directly in markup with loops, logic, and event handlers without reaching for JSX or mustache-style libraries.

_Developers deciding between templating approaches can follow web standards proposals like this on daily.dev._

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