setting both a persistent and nonpersistent cookie in javascript

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so I know that I can set cookie in javascript using document.cookie and according to this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/cookie

;expires=date-in-GMTString-format If not specified it will expire at the end of session

My question is, what if I want to set both a persistent cookie that expires at a specified date AND a session cookie that gets cleared the moment the session is closed?

What string should I set the document.cookie variable to in order to accomplish that?

Did you try to use multiple document.cookie= statements? Each statement should set another cookie - persistent or session based — Guido Kitzing
– Guido Kitzing, Commented Dec 3, 2015 at 17:53

Ramanlfc · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-03 17:52:55Z

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for session only cookie use :

document.cookie = "name=value;

for persistent cookie use :

document.cookie = "name=value; expires=some GMT date string";

answered Dec 3, 2015 at 17:52

Ramanlfc

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