Sometimes you will want to delete a cookie so that subsequent attempts to read the cookie return nothing. To do this, you just need to set the expiry date to a time in the past.
Example
Try the following example. It illustrates how to delete a cookie by setting its expiry date to one month behind the current date.
<html> <head> <script> <!-- function WriteCookie() { var now = new Date(); now.setMonth( now.getMonth() - 1 ); cookievalue = escape(document.myform.customer.value) + ";" document.cookie="name=" + cookievalue; document.cookie = "expires=" + now.toUTCString() + ";" document.write("Setting Cookies : " + "name=" + cookievalue ); } //--> </script> </head> <body> <form name="myform" action=""> Enter name: <input type="text" name="customer"/> <input type="button" value="Set Cookie" onclick="WriteCookie()"/> </form> </body> </html>