Cookies: Accessing the value of a cookie

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To access a cookie, lookup document.cookie:

const cookies = document.cookie

This will return a string with all the cookies set for the page, semicolon separated:

'name1=Flavio1; name2=Flavio2; name3=Flavio3'

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Setting cookies
2: Setting a cookie expiration date
3: Setting a cookie path
4: Setting a cookie domain
5: Cookies security
6: Updating a cookie
7: Deleting a cookie
8: ▶︎ Accessing the value of a cookie
9: Checking if a cookie exists
10: Inspecting cookies
11: Cookie not being set in Safari