/react-cookie-consent

A small, simple and customizable cookie consent bar for use in React applications.

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🍪 react-cookie-consent 🍪

A small, simple and customizable cookie consent bar for use in React applications.

NPM

Demo: https://mastermindzh.github.io/react-cookie-consent/

Example branch: https://github.com/Mastermindzh/react-cookie-consent/tree/example

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Default look

default look

Table of contents

Installation

npm install react-cookie-consent

or use yarn:

yarn add react-cookie-consent

Using it

You can import the cookie bar like this:

import CookieConsent from "react-cookie-consent";

If you want to set/remove cookies yourself you can optionally import Cookies (straight from js-cookie) like this:

import CookieConsent, { Cookies } from "react-cookie-consent";

Then you can use the component anywhere in your React app like so:

<CookieConsent>This website uses cookies to enhance the user experience.</CookieConsent>

You can optionally set some props like this (next chapter will show all props):

<CookieConsent
  location="bottom"
  buttonText="Sure man!!"
  cookieName="myAwesomeCookieName2"
  style={{ background: "#2B373B" }}
  buttonStyle={{ color: "#4e503b", fontSize: "13px" }}
  expires={150}
>
  This website uses cookies to enhance the user experience.{" "}
  <span style={{ fontSize: "10px" }}>This bit of text is smaller :O</span>
</CookieConsent>

One of the props (onAccept) is a function, this function will be called after the user has clicked the accept button. You can provide a function like so:

<CookieConsent
  onAccept={() => {
    alert("Accept was triggered by clicking the Accept button");
  }}
></CookieConsent>

If the decline button is enabled then the (onDecline) prop function can be used, this function will be called after the user has clicked the decline button. You can enable the button and provide a function like so:

<CookieConsent
  enableDeclineButton
  onDecline={() => {
    alert("nay!");
  }}
></CookieConsent>

getting the cookies value in your own code

react-cookie-consent exports a function called getCookieConsentValue. You can use it in your own code like so:

import CookieConsent, { Cookies, getCookieConsentValue } from "react-cookie-consent";

console.log(getCookieConsentValue());

Props

Prop Type Default value Description
location string, "top", "bottom" or "none" "bottom" Syntactic sugar to easily enable you to place the bar at the top or the bottom of the browser window. Use "none" to disable.
children string or React component Content to appear inside the bar
disableStyles boolean false If enabled the component will have no default style. (you can still supply style through props)
hideOnAccept boolean true If disabled the component will not hide it self after the accept button has been clicked. You will need to hide yourself (see onAccept)
buttonText string or React component "I understand" Text to appear on the button
declineButtonText string or React component "I decline" Text to appear on the decline button
cookieName string "CookieConsent" Name of the cookie used to track whether the user has agreed.
cookieValue string or boolean or number true Value to be saved under the cookieName.
declineCookieValue string or boolean or number false Value to be saved under the cookieName when declined.
setDeclineCookie boolean true Whether to set a cookie when the user clicks "decline"
onAccept function () => {} Function to be called after the accept button has been clicked.
onDecline function () => {} Function to be called after the decline button has been clicked.
debug boolean undefined Bar will be drawn regardless of cookie for debugging purposes.
expires number 365 Number of days before the cookie expires.
extraCookieOptions object {} Extra info (apart from expiry date) to add to the cookie
overlay boolean false Whether to show a page obscuring overlay or not.
containerClasses string "" CSS classes to apply to the surrounding container
buttonClasses string "" CSS classes to apply to the button
buttonWrapperClasses string "" CSS classes to apply to the div wrapping the buttons
declineButtonClasses string "" CSS classes to apply to the decline button
buttonId string "" Id to apply to the button
declineButtonId string "" Id to apply to the decline button
contentClasses string "" CSS classes to apply to the content
overlayClasses string "" CSS classes to apply to the surrounding overlay
style object look at source React styling object for the bar.
buttonStyle object look at source React styling object for the button.
declineButtonStyle object look at source React styling object for the decline button.
contentStyle object look at source React styling object for the content.
overlayStyle object look at source React styling object for the overlay.
disableButtonStyles boolean false If enabled the button will have no default style. (you can still supply style through props)
enableDeclineButton boolean false If enabled the decline button will be rendered
flipButtons boolean false If enabled the accept and decline buttons will be flipped
ButtonComponent React component button React Component to render as a button.
sameSite string, "strict", "lax" or "none" none Cookies sameSite attribute value
cookieSecurity boolean undefined Cookie security level. Defaults to true unless running on http.
ariaAcceptLabel string Accept cookies Aria label to set on the accept button
ariaDeclineLabel string Decline cookies Aria label to set on the decline button

Debugging it

Because the cookie consent bar will be hidden once accepted, you will have to set the prop debug={true} to evaluate styling changes:

<CookieConsent debug={true}></CookieConsent>

Note: Don't forget to remove the debug-property for production.

Why are there two cookies? One of which named "Legacy"

The short story is that some browsers don't support the SameSite=None attribute. The modern browsers force you to have SameSite set to something other than none.

So react-cookie-consent fixes this like so:

  • set the fallback cookie (e.g -legacy) first, this will always succeed (on all browsers)
  • set the correct cookie second (this will work on modern browsers, fail on older ones)

This happens on lines 186-192

When checking the cookie it'll do it in reverse. If the regular cookie exists, it'll use that. If no regular cookie exists it'll check whether the legacy cookie exists. If both are non-existent no consent was given.

The long story can be found here: pull-request#68

Styling it

You can provide styling for the bar, the button and the content. Note that the bar has a display: flex property as default and is parent to its children "content" and "button".

The styling behaves kind of responsive. The minimum content width has been chosen to be "300px" as a default value. If the button does not fit into the same line it is wrapped around into the next line.

You can style each component by using the style, buttonStyle and contentStyle prop. These will append / replace the default styles of the components. Alternatively you can provide CSS classnames as containerClasses, buttonClasses and contentClasses to apply predefined CSS classes.

You can use disableStyles={true} to disable any built-in styling.

Examples

Changing the bar background to red

<CookieConsent style={{ background: "red" }}></CookieConsent>

Changing the button font-weight to bold

<CookieConsent buttonStyle={{ fontWeight: "bold" }}></CookieConsent>

Using predefined CSS classes

You can pass predefined CSS classes to the components using the containerClasses, buttonClasses and contentClasses props. The example below uses bootstrap classes:

<CookieConsent
  disableStyles={true}
  location={OPTIONS.BOTTOM}
  buttonClasses="btn btn-primary"
  containerClasses="alert alert-warning col-lg-12"
  contentClasses="text-capitalize"
>
  This website uses cookies to enhance the user experience.{" "}
  <span style={{ fontSize: "10px" }}>This bit of text is smaller :O</span>
</CookieConsent>

Which results in:

bootstrap styling

Flipping the buttons

If you enable the decline button you can pass along the "flipButtons" property to turn the buttons around:

<CookieConsent enableDeclineButton flipButtons>
  Flipped buttons
</CookieConsent>

Which results in:

flipped buttons

Extra cookie options

You can add more cookie options using the extraCookieOptions parameter like so:

<CookieConsent extraCookieOptions={{ domain: "myexample.com" }}>cookie bar</CookieConsent>

Rainbows!

rainbows!

If you're crazy enough you can even make a rainbow colored bar:

<CookieConsent
  buttonText="OMG DOUBLE RAINBOW"
  cookieName="myAwesomeCookieName2"
  style={{
    background: "linear-gradient(to right, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet)",
    textShadow: "2px 2px black",
  }}
  buttonStyle={{
    background: "linear-gradient(to left, orange , yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet)",
    color: "white",
    fontWeight: "bolder",
    textShadow: "2px 2px black",
  }}
>
  This website uses cookies to enhance the user experience.{" "}
  <span style={{ fontSize: "10px" }}>This bit of text is smaller :O</span>
</CookieConsent>

Overlay

overlay

You can also generate a page-obfuscating overlay that will prevent actions other than interacting with the cookie consent button(s).

<CookieConsent location="bottom" cookieName="myAwesomeCookieName3" expires={999} overlay>
  This website uses cookies to enhance the user experience.
</CookieConsent>

Contributor information

When making a PR please think about the following things:

  • Update the ChangeLog (or include what you did in the PR and I'll add it, up to you)
  • No need to build or update the package.json. I will do both on release.
  • Please don't change code convention / style

Projects using react-cookie-consent

The list below features the projects which use react-cookie-consent (that I know off):