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OK, I have a show/hide script on my website for a sidebar (social network buttons) and it would be nice that the status of the sidebar stays the same, even after page reload/going to another page on the site.

I tried do this with a cookiescript that I found here on jQuery:

1. /**
    * Cookie plugin
    *
    * Copyright (c) 2006 Klaus Hartl (stilbuero.de)
    * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses:
    * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
    * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
    *
    */
   
   /**
    * Create a cookie with the given name and value and other optional parameters.
    *
    * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value');
    * @desc Set the value of a cookie.
    * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value', { expires: 7, path: '/', domain: 'jquery.com', secure: true });
    * @desc Create a cookie with all available options.
    * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', 'the_value');
    * @desc Create a session cookie.
    * @example $.cookie('the_cookie', null);
    * @desc Delete a cookie by passing null as value. Keep in mind that you have to use the same path and domain
    *       used when the cookie was set.
    *
    * @param String name The name of the cookie.
    * @param String value The value of the cookie.
    * @param Object options An object literal containing key/value pairs to provide optional cookie attributes.
    * @option Number|Date expires Either an integer specifying the expiration date from now on in days or a Date object.
    *                             If a negative value is specified (e.g. a date in the past), the cookie will be deleted.
    *                             If set to null or omitted, the cookie will be a session cookie and will not be retained
    *                             when the the browser exits.
    * @option String path The value of the path atribute of the cookie (default: path of page that created the cookie).
    * @option String domain The value of the domain attribute of the cookie (default: domain of page that created the cookie).
    * @option Boolean secure If true, the secure attribute of the cookie will be set and the cookie transmission will
    *                        require a secure protocol (like HTTPS).
    * @type undefined
    *
    * @name $.cookie
    * @cat Plugins/Cookie
    * @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
    */
   
   /**
    * Get the value of a cookie with the given name.
    *
    * @example $.cookie('the_cookie');
    * @desc Get the value of a cookie.
    *
    * @param String name The name of the cookie.
    * @return The value of the cookie.
    * @type String
    *
    * @name $.cookie
    * @cat Plugins/Cookie
    * @author Klaus Hartl/klaus.hartl@stilbuero.de
    */
    
   jQuery.cookie = function(name, value, options) {
       if (typeof value != 'undefined') { // name and value given, set cookie
           options = options || {};
           if (value === null) {
               value = '';
               options.expires = -1;
           }
           var expires = '';
           if (options.expires && (typeof options.expires == 'number' || options.expires.toUTCString)) {
               var date;
               if (typeof options.expires == 'number') {
                   date = new Date();
                   date.setTime(date.getTime() + (options.expires * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
               } else {
                   date = options.expires;
               }
               expires = '; expires=' + date.toUTCString(); // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
           }
           // CAUTION: Needed to parenthesize options.path and options.domain
           // in the following expressions, otherwise they evaluate to undefined
           // in the packed version for some reason...
           var path = options.path ? '; path=' + (options.path) : '';
           var domain = options.domain ? '; domain=' + (options.domain) : '';
           var secure = options.secure ? '; secure' : '';
           document.cookie = [name, '=', encodeURIComponent(value), expires, path, domain, secure].join('');
       } else { // only name given, get cookie
           var cookieValue = null;
           if (document.cookie && document.cookie != '') {
               var cookies = document.cookie.split(';');
               for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
                   var cookie = jQuery.trim(cookies[i]);
                   // Does this cookie string begin with the name we want?
                   if (cookie.substring(0, name.length + 1) == (name + '=')) {
                       cookieValue = decodeURIComponent(cookie.substring(name.length + 1));
                       break;
                   }
               }
           }
           return cookieValue;
       }
   };

And a custom script that some one made for me:

1. $(document).ready(function(){
       toggleSocialMedia();
   });
   
   function toggleSocialMedia() {
       if($.cookie('socialMedia') === true) {
           $("#colright").animate({marginLeft:"140px"}, 200);
           $("#panel").animate({marginLeft:"0px"}, 400 );
           $("#colleft").animate({width:"140px", opacity:1}, 400 );
           $("#showPanel").animate({width:"0px", opacity:0}, 600).hide("slow");
          
           $.cookie('socialMedia', true);
       } else {
           $("#panel").animate({marginLeft:"-140px"}, 500 );
           $("#colleft").animate({width:"0px", opacity:0}, 400 );
           $("#showPanel").show("normal").animate({width:"28px", opacity:1}, 200);
          
           $.cookie('socialMedia', false);
       }
   }

Most important HTML:

1. <div id="colleft">
       <div id="buttonhead"><span id="buttontop"><span></span> Bezoek ons ook hier:</span></div>
       <div id="panel">
           <ul>
         <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/NotenbalkersSchaffen" target="_blank"><img src="../images/template/ytbutton.png" width="42" height="42" alt="youtube logo" title="Bezoek ons Youtube kanaal"/></a></li>
         <li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55593256266" target="_blank"><img src="../images/template/fbbutton.png" width="42" height="42" alt="facebook logo" title="Bekijk onze Facebook groep" /></a></li>
         <li><a href="http://verenigingen.nieuwsblad.be/vereniging/de-notenbalkers-0" target="_blank"><img src="../images/template/nieuwsbladbutton.png" width="42" height="42" alt="nieuwsblad logo" title="Klik door naar het nieuwsblad" /></a></li>
         </ul>
         <div id="hidePanel"><a href="#"> &laquo; Verberg dit venster</a></div>
       </div>
   </div>
   
   <div id="showPanel"><span>&raquo;</span></div>

So the thingy is, that it doesn't do what I want. The div always reloads and hides itself, but I cannot find the error in the script..

A demo can be found here. (no images uploaded)


If anyone can help, thanks thousand times and more!