Clearing all cookies with JavaScript

After a bit of frustration with this myself I knocked together this function which will attempt to delete a named cookie from all paths. Just call this for each of your cookies and you should be closer to deleting every cookie then you were before.

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 always different browsers have different behaviour but this worked for me. Enjoy.

Figured I'd share this method for clearing cookies. Perhaps it may be helpful for someone else at some point.

var cookie = document.cookie.split(';');

for (var i = 0; i < cookie.length; i++) {

    var chip = cookie[i],
        entry = chip.split("="),
        name = entry[0];

    document.cookie = name + '=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT;';
}