var score = 0;

function run(){
 var ans1 = document.getElementById("ans1").value;
 if(ans1 == "917") {
  score++; }
  setCookie("scores", score, 30);
window.location.href = "question2.html";
}

//This piece of code was tied to a button that was meant to add a point if the answer was correct(The ans1 == "917"), then save the score as a cookie, and open up the next page.

function testIt(){
document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = getCookie("scores");
}

//To help test if it did work I had another button set up to replace the innerHTML of a div tag by retrieving the cookie and putting the value in place of the HTML. However when I click it, it will return just blank text found at the end return of the getCookie code provided by W3.

function getCookie(cname) {
    var name = cname + "=";
    var decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);
    var ca = decodedCookie.split(';');
    for(var i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {
        var c = ca[i];
        while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {
            c = c.substring(1);
        }
        if (c.indexOf(name) === 0) {
            return c.substring(name.length, c.length);
        }
    }
    return "";
}