Saving Cookies

Setting cookies is really easy as Example 16-2 shows.

Example 16-2. Setting a cookie
<html>
<head>
<title>cookies</title>

<script language="JavaScript">
document.cookie="test=my_test"
</script>

</head>
<body>
set the cookie
</body>
</html>

♦ HOW THE CODE WORKS

Well, that's not too hard. There's only one cookie object in the document, so there's no confusion from adding to any sort of cookie array or cookie object. Using document.cookie simply adds “test=my_test” to the list of cookies in the browser memory.

But what if we want to save another cookie, like “pants=blue”? Easy.

<script language="JavaScript">
    document.cookie="test=my_test"
    document.cookie="pants=blue"
</script>

This code creates two cookies. The pants=blue cookie ...

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