Navigator: cookieEnabled property

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navigator.cookieEnabled returns a Boolean value that indicates whether cookies are enabled or not.

The property is read-only.

Value

A boolean.

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

if (!navigator.cookieEnabled) {
  // The browser does not support or is blocking cookies from being set.
}

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard # dom-navigator-cookieenabled-dev

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