// Creating and reading credit: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1460174/1177153 function createCookie( name, value, days ) { var expires; if ( days ) { var date = new Date(); date.setTime( date.getTime()+( days * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000 ) ); expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString(); } else { var expires = ""; } document.cookie = name + "=" + value + expires + "; path=/"; } function readCookie( name ) { var nameEQ = name + "="; var ca = document.cookie.split( ";" ); for ( var i = 0; i < ca.length; i++ ) { var c = ca[i]; while ( c.charAt(0)==" " ) c = c.substring( 1, c.length ); if ( c.indexOf( nameEQ ) == 0 ) return c.substring( nameEQ.length, c.length ); } return null; }