How to delete a cookie

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Is my function of creating a cookie correct  How do I delete the cookie at the beginning of my program  is there a simple coding   function createCookie name value days      function setCookie c name value 1      document cookie   c name        escape value      setCookie  cookie name  mac    function eraseCookie c name      createCookie cookie name    -1

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Here is an implementation of a delete cookie function with unicode support from Mozilla:

function removeItem(sKey, sPath, sDomain) {
    document.cookie = encodeURIComponent(sKey) + 
                  "=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT" + 
                  (sDomain ? "; domain=" + sDomain : "") + 
                  (sPath ? "; path=" + sPath : "");
}

removeItem("cookieName");

If you use AngularJs, try $cookies.remove (underneath it uses a similar approach):

$cookies.remove('cookieName');

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Some of the other solutions might not work if you created the cookie manually   Here s a quick way to delete a cookie   document cookie    COOKIE NAME   Max-Age 0  path    domain     location host

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Try this  function delete cookie  name  path  domain       if  get cookie  name           document cookie   name    quot   quot            path     quot  path  quot  path  quot  quot            domain   quot  domain  quot  domain  quot  quot            quot  expires Thu  01 Jan 1970 00 00 01 GMT quot          You can define get cookie   like this  function get cookie name       return document cookie split      some c   gt            return c trim   startsWith name

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I had trouble deleting a cookie made via JavaScript and after I added the host it worked  scroll the code below to the right to see the location host   After clearing the cookies on a domain try the following to see the results   if  document cookie length  0     document cookie    name example  expires   new Date  new Date    valueOf   1000 60 60 24 15     path    domain   location host    if  document cookie length  0   alert  Cookies disabled      else      document cookie    name example  expires Thu  01 Jan 1970 00 00 00 GMT  path    domain   location host     if  document cookie length  0   alert  Created AND deleted cookie successfully        else  alert  document cookies length     document cookies length

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Here a good link on Quirksmode   function setCookie name value days        var expires           if  days            var date   new Date            date setTime date getTime      days 24 60 60 1000            expires      expires     date toUTCString              document cookie   name          value           expires      path       function getCookie name        var nameEQ   name            var ca   document cookie split           for var i 0 i  lt  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    function eraseCookie name           document cookie   name     Max-Age -99999999

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You can do this by setting the date of expiry to yesterday   Setting it to  -1  doesn t work  That marks a cookie as a Sessioncookie

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would this work    function eraseCookie name        document cookie   name       Max-Age 0      I know Max-Age causes the cookie to be a session cookie in IE when creating the cookie  Not sure how it works when deleting cookies

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To delete a cookie I set it again with an empty value and expiring in 1 second  In details  I always use one of the following flavours  I tend to prefer the second one    1       function setCookie key  value  expireDays  expireHours  expireMinutes  expireSeconds            var expireDate   new Date            if  expireDays                expireDate setDate expireDate getDate     expireDays                     if  expireHours                expireDate setHours expireDate getHours     expireHours                     if  expireMinutes                expireDate setMinutes expireDate getMinutes     expireMinutes                     if  expireSeconds                expireDate setSeconds expireDate getSeconds     expireSeconds                     document cookie   key       escape value                  domain    window location hostname                 path                   expires   expireDate toUTCString               function deleteCookie name            setCookie name      null   null   null  1           Usage   setCookie  reminder    buyCoffee   null  null  20   deleteCookie  reminder      2      function setCookie params            var name              params name              value             params value              expireDays        params days              expireHours       params hours              expireMinutes     params minutes              expireSeconds     params seconds           var expireDate   new Date            if  expireDays                expireDate setDate expireDate getDate     expireDays                     if  expireHours                expireDate setHours expireDate getHours     expireHours                     if  expireMinutes                expireDate setMinutes expireDate getMinutes     expireMinutes                     if  expireSeconds                expireDate setSeconds expireDate getSeconds     expireSeconds                      document cookie   name       escape value                  domain    window location hostname                 path                   expires   expireDate toUTCString               function deleteCookie name            setCookie  name  name  value      seconds  1            Usage   setCookie  name   reminder   value   buyCoffee   minutes  20    deleteCookie  reminder

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