jquery save json data object in cookie

How do I save JSON data in a cookie?

My JSON data looks like this

$("#ArticlesHolder").data('15', {name:'testname', nr:'4',price:'400'});
$("#ArticlesHolder").data('25', {name:'name2', nr:'1', price:'100'});
$("#ArticlesHolder").data('37', {name:'name3', nr:'14', price:'60'});

And I want to do something like

var dataStore = $.cookie("basket-data", $("#ArticlesHolder").data());

and to retrieve the data i want to load it into $("#ArticlesHolder") like

$.each($.cookie("basket-data"), function(i,e){
 $("#ArticlesHolder").data(i, e);
});

does anyone know if I'm on the right track or should this be done in some other way? Simply put, how do i put and pull json data from a cookie?

You can serialize the data as JSON, like this:

$.cookie("basket-data", JSON.stringify($("#ArticlesHolder").data()));

Then to get it from the cookie:

$("#ArticlesHolder").data(JSON.parse($.cookie("basket-data")));

This relies on JSON.stringify() and JSON.parse() to serialize/deserialize your data object, for older browsers (IE<8) include json2.js to get the JSON functionality. This example uses the jQuery cookie plugin

Now there is already no need to use JSON.stringify explicitly. Just execute this line of code

$.cookie.json = true;

After that you can save any object in cookie, which will be automatically converted to JSON and back from JSON when reading cookie.

var user = { name: "name", age: 25 }
$.cookie('user', user);
...

var currentUser = $.cookie('user');
alert('User name is ' + currentUser.name);

But JSON library does not come with jquery.cookie, so you have to download it by yourself and include into html page before jquery.cookie.js

use JSON.stringify(userData) to coverty json object to string.

var dataStore = $.cookie("basket-data", JSON.stringify($("#ArticlesHolder").data()));

and for getting back from cookie use JSON.parse()

var data=JSON.parse($.cookie("basket-data"))