Session-only cookies

Preheat your oven people, for the time has come to thrust JavaScript into it until some long term memory develops. In this tutorial, we'll look up the recipe for session-only cookies, and how they can help your scripts retain information even after the page is reloaded or cleared.

Brief overview



JavaScript cookies are the vehicle to persisting data between client requests. When a site requiring login remembers your username on return visits, for example, thank not Oreos, but these uneatable imposters.