Writing a Cookie
function WriteCookie(cookievalue) { //set Cookie document.cookie = cookievalue; }
Reading a Cookie
<script language=javascript> alert(getCookie(mybgcolor)); // more cookie samples and docs available from our friends at Netscape // http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsguide/index.htm function getCookie(Name) { var search = Name + "=" if (document.cookie.length > 0) { // if there are any cookies offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search) if (offset != -1) { // if cookie exists offset += search.length // set index of beginning of value end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset) // set index of end of cookie value if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end)) } } } </script>