JavaScript For Creating Cookies

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Cookies are the name given to the small text files your browser stores on your computer, which contain information relevant to the sites you have visited in the past. Using JavaScript you can write to these text files and then extract data from them whenever your reader returns to your site.

Why we use Cookies

Cookies are necessary because the HTTP protocol that is used to transfer webpages around the web is state-less. This means that web servers cannot remember information about users throughout their travels, and so everyone becomes anonymous. If you ever return to a site you have visited previously, you are treated as if it was your first visit.  more...