Cookie Example JavaScript (JS): HTML DOM Objects – Document Object Properties – Cookie Example JavaScript (JS)

Cookie Example JavaScript (JS): HTML DOM Objects – Document Object Properties – Cookie Example JavaScript (JS)

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other HTML DOM Document Objects

Prerequistes:

Syntax: cookie – Allows you to access cookies associated with a document

Restrictions: None

Notes:

  • You can build your own library of syntax examples by using same web site over and over and just add new files to it.

Instructions:

  1. Use Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Create new web site;
    • Click File/New Web Site
    • Select ASP.NET Website Template
    • Select C-Sharp for Language
    • name of Web Site could be JavaScript_Syntax.
  3. Folder

  4. Add New folder named “HTMLDOMObjects”
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: HTMLDOMObjects
  5. Add New subfolder to “HTMLDOMObjects” folder named “DocumentObjectProperties”
    • Right-click folder named “HTMLDOMObjects” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: DocumentObjectProperties
  6. Add HTML Page Named Cookie to DocumentObjectProperties subfolder
    • Right-click DocumentObjectProperties subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be Cookie
  7. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page Cookie.htm
  8. Right-click on HTML page Cookie.htm and select view in browser
  9. < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
     
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>IdealProgrammer.com: Cookie </title>
        <!-- 
        ***************************************************
        * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
        ***************************************************
        -->
       </head>
      <body>
     
    <script type="text/javascript">
     
        //*****************************************************
        // DOM Document
        //*****************************************************
     
     
        //*****************************************************
        //    ***    Document Object Properties   ***
        //*****************************************************
     
        //*****************************************************
        // Cookie
        //*****************************************************
     
        //    SYNTAX:
        //    cookie 	        Allows you to access cookie associated with a document
        //
     
        // set the cookie if none exists
        if (document.cookie.length == 0)
        {
            var exdate = new Date();
            var expiredays = 5;
            exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + expiredays);
            document.cookie = "mycookie=" + escape(thecookie) +
            ((expiredays == null) ? "" : ";expires=" + exdate.toGMTString());
        }
     
        // write the cookie
        document.write(document.cookie + "<br />")
     
    </script>
     
     
      </body>
    </html>