using jquery for form entry

using jquery for form entry

Please pardon my inexperience with jQuery as I dove into it in order to solve a simple data issue.

I use a very simple web form to submit entries in a MySQL database.  Originally, this was a basic web form (using PHP) that would submit the data and refresh the page.  Seemed simple enough.  Unfortunately, doing that dozens, even hundreds of times, daily, ran up my data usage on my free web hosting site (this is for a hobby).  My solution was to not refresh the page, but still submit the data.  Welcome to my reason to use jQuery.

I have to admit, it fixed the problem immediately.  I was loving its efficiency, and speed (so much faster "reloads" to a blank form).  However, I ran into a new problem.  In general, when you use the same form over and over again, the form field remembers prior entry, which then makes it even easier to fill out the form (press "f" and the previously entered word "football" displays).  After time, these remembered entries fade away.

When I used my original form, the entries were renewed every time I used them, so they were always there.  Now, with the jQuery submission, those entries are no longer renewed and now have all faded away.  This makes my on-going use that much more tedious.  Now to my question.

Staying with the jQuery form submission, is there any way to allow my form entries to be remembered again?

I will add that I have been searching online for weeks now and cannot find an answer to this question.