document.cookie = "cookieName=cookieValue";

And the following statement displays the property's value:

alert(document.cookie);

The value of document.cookie is a string containing a list of all cookies that are associated with a web page. It consists, that is, of name=value pairs for each cookie that matches the current domain, path, and date. The value of the document.cookie property, for instance, might be the following string:

cookieName1=cookieValue1; cookieName2=cookieValue2;

If you want to find a cookie having a specific name, you need to parse the string and find the one matching this name. For your convenience, we provided in Column 8, Crispy JavaScript Cookies, a set of useful functions for getting and setting cookies.

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