title: pass data between two html pages using jquery
body: <p>How can I pass variables between two html pages using jQuery?</p>
  
  <p>file1.html</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;form&gt;
    First name : &lt;input type="text" id="firstname"/&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>file2.html:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt; &lt;!--retrieve firstname here --&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>