Cookie Libraries
You'll find many free cookie libraries on the Web. Just use any search engine, and search for javascript cookie to get a list. The functions in the libraries generally come ready to run, so you can just cut and paste them into your web pages. Webmonkey has exceptionally well-commented libraries, so we'll use its code here. You can find more of Webmonkey's free JavaScript code at http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/javascript_code_library/wm_ckie_lib/?tw=reference&category=forms_data.
Figure 12-9 shows you Webmonkey's code for accessing one cookie when document.cookie is storing multiple cookies.
Figure 12-9. Reading one ...
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