javascript set cookie with expire time

Question

I am setting a cookie by Javascript and it is working fine but it is not taking the expire time I am giving. It keeps on taking session value regardless of what I give, belo

Answer 1

I'd like to second Polin's answer and just add one thing in case you are still stuck. This code certainly does work to set a specific cookie expiration time. One issue you may be having is that if you are using Chrome and accessing your page via "http://localhost..." or "file://", Chrome will not store cookies. The easy fix for this is to use a simple http server (like node's http-server if you haven't already) and navigate to your page explicitly as "http://127.0.0.1" in which case Chrome WILL store cookies for local development. This had me hung up for a bit as, if you don't do this, your expires key will simply have the value of "session" when you investigate it in the console or in Dev Tools.