Navigator: cookieEnabled property
navigator.cookieEnabled returns a Boolean value that indicates whether cookies are enabled or not.
The property is read-only.
Value
A boolean.
Note: When the browser is configured to block third-party cookies, and navigator.cookieEnabled is invoked inside a third-party iframe, it returns true in Safari, Edge Spartan and IE (while trying to set a cookie in such scenario would fail). It returns false in Firefox and Chromium-based browsers.
Note: Web browsers may prevent writing certain cookies in certain scenarios. For example, Chrome-based browsers, as well as some experimental version of Firefox, does not allow creating cookies with SameSite=None attribute, unless they are created over HTTPS and with Secure attribute.
Examples
js
if (!navigator.cookieEnabled) {
// The browser does not support or is blocking cookies from being set.
}
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-navigator-cookieenabled-dev |
Browser compatibility
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