Navigator.cookieEnabled

Returns a Boolean value indicating whether cookies are enabled or not (read-only).

SyntaxEdit

var cookieEnabled = navigator.cookieEnabled;
  • cookieEnabled is a Boolean true or false.

ExampleEdit

if (!navigator.cookieEnabled) { 
  // let the user know that enabling cookies makes the web page much more useful
}

SpecificationsEdit

Specification Status Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard
The definition of 'Navigator.cookieEnabled' in that specification.
Living Standard Initial definition

Browser compatibilityEdit

Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari
Basic support (Yes) 1.0 (1.7 or earlier) (Yes)[1] (Yes) (Yes)

[1] Prior to Gecko 8.0 (Firefox 8.0 / Thunderbird 8.0 / SeaMonkey 2.5), window.navigator.cookieEnabled would report the wrong result if a site exception was in place for the page on which the check was performed. This has been fixed.

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