Using JavaScript to clear all cookies

Problem

Using JavaScript, how do you erase all cookies for the current domain?

Asked by polarbear

Solution #1

function deleteAllCookies() {
    var cookies = document.cookie.split(";");

    for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
        var cookie = cookies[i];
        var eqPos = cookie.indexOf("=");
        var name = eqPos > -1 ? cookie.substr(0, eqPos) : cookie;
        document.cookie = name + "=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT";
    }
}

There are two limits to this code:

Answered by Robert J. Walker

Solution #2

If you want to swiftly paste it in…

document.cookie.split(";").forEach(function(c) { document.cookie = c.replace(/^ +/, "").replace(/=.*/, "=;expires=" + new Date().toUTCString() + ";path=/"); });

And here’s the bookmarklet code:

javascript:(function(){document.cookie.split(";").forEach(function(c) { document.cookie = c.replace(/^ +/, "").replace(/=.*/, "=;expires=" + new Date().toUTCString() + ";path=/"); }); })();

Answered by Craig Smedley

Solution #3

And here’s another to erase all cookies across all pathways and domain variants (www.mydomain.com, mydomain.com, and so on):

(function () {
    var cookies = document.cookie.split("; ");
    for (var c = 0; c < cookies.length; c++) {
        var d = window.location.hostname.split(".");
        while (d.length > 0) {
            var cookieBase = encodeURIComponent(cookies[c].split(";")[0].split("=")[0]) + '=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; domain=' + d.join('.') + ' ;path=';
            var p = location.pathname.split('/');
            document.cookie = cookieBase + '/';
            while (p.length > 0) {
                document.cookie = cookieBase + p.join('/');
                p.pop();
            };
            d.shift();
        }
    }
})();

Answered by Jan

Solution #4

After some irritation with this, I whipped up this code that will attempt to erase a named cookie from all pathways. Simply repeat this procedure for each of your cookies, and you should be closer to erasing all of them than you were previously.

function eraseCookieFromAllPaths(name) {
    // This function will attempt to remove a cookie from all paths.
    var pathBits = location.pathname.split('/');
    var pathCurrent = ' path=';

    // do a simple pathless delete first.
    document.cookie = name + '=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT;';

    for (var i = 0; i < pathBits.length; i++) {
        pathCurrent += ((pathCurrent.substr(-1) != '/') ? '/' : '') + pathBits[i];
        document.cookie = name + '=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT;' + pathCurrent + ';';
    }
}

As with all browsers, different browsers behave differently, however this worked for me. Enjoy.

Answered by AnthonyVO

Solution #5

You can delete all cookies if you have access to the jquery.cookie plugin:

for (var it in $.cookie()) $.removeCookie(it);

Answered by jichi

Post is based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/179355/clearing-all-cookies-with-javascript