Cannot set cookies in Javascript

I have a very simple line of code that set and read a cookie. I kept getting empty value for my cookie and have no understanding why. I have cookie enabled and know that cookies work on the browser.

<HTML>
    <HEAD>
        <TITLE>Hello World</TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
        <SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
            document.cookie = "ding=dong";
        </SCRIPT>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            alert(document.cookie);
        </script>
    </BODY>
</HTML>

Solution 1:

Recently I stumbled upon a similar issue. My script couldn't store a cookie in Chromium, although it worked well on all other major browsers. After some googling it turned out that Chrome ignores cookies from local pages. After I uploaded the page to remote server code magically started to work.

Solution 2:

I tried to save an cookie on Chrome and had the same error, that it would save. Although it did work in Firefox, so I asked an collegue and he suggested that I take away path and domain (I had name of cookie, value, expire, path amd domain) and all of a sudden it worked. So just to get the cookie to actually save in Chrome, you just need name, value and expire.

Hope it helps.

Example:

function createCookie(name,value,days) {
     if (days) {
        var date = new Date();
        date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
        var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
     }
     else var expires = "";
     document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+";";
}

Cannot set cookies in Javascript

Solution 1:

Solution 2:

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