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HTML

<script src="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery.cookie/1.2/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<div></div>

JavaScript

if ($.cookie('cookieCreditDash') == null)
{ 
     $('div').text("no cookie"); 
     $.cookie("cookieCreditDash", 'test', {expires: 1}); 
} else{ 
     var data =  $.cookie("cookieCreditDash");
     $('div').text("with cookie: " + data);        
}