jQuery and JavaScript Phrasebook

Example Getting and Setting Cookies

The following code shows a full example of setting and getting cookies. When the code is run, two cookies are set: one for name and the other for language. The cookies are then retrieved from the browser and written to the web page, as shown in Figure 3.2.

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01 <html> 02 <head> 03   <title>Python Phrasebook</title> 04   <meta charset="utf-8" /> 05   <script type="text/javascript" 06   src="../js/jquery-2.0.3.min.js"></script> 07   <script> 08     function setCookie(name, value, days) { 09       var date = new Date(); 10       date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000)); 11       var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString (); 12       document.cookie = name + "=" + value + ...