The cookie consent banner (dialog)
Information about the cookie consent banner, what is required, how you can style it, build your own custom banner and much more.
General information about the cookie consent banner
- Is it GDPR compliant to have all 4 checkboxes in the banner pre-ticked?
- Cookie consent expiration in Safari 12.1 and newer
- What type of cookie consent banner should I use (to be GDPR compliant)?
- The cookie consent banner doesn’t appear anymore – what is wrong?
- How much can I customize the cookie dialog/banner? I would like to have full control of its styling.
The cookie consent banner (dialog) - standard templates (customization of content)
The cookie consent banner (dialog) - standard templates (styling of banner)
- Can I style the cookie consent banner?
- Is it possible to override the styles for the cookie dialog with an external stylesheet?
- Can I remove the ’show details’ from the banner so that it will not be visible what cookies are in use?
- How safe is it for us to style an existing template for the cookie consent banner? If you change your base styles or html, we risk that the styling will “break” and we will need to redo it?
- Can I change the height and width of the cookie consent notice/banner? I think it’s too high on a desktop and would like to make it wider.
- Can I remove the 'by Cookiebot' branding in the cookie consent banner?
Expert: Building and working with a custom cookie consent banner
- Can I build my own fully customized cookie consent banner?
- Custom texts on buttons
- I want to modify one of the existing banner/dialog templates that I like (e.g. the ‘slide up’). With the ‘custom’ template I need to start from scratch – can you give me the code and CSS for your existing template, so I can just modify that?
- I want to use the ‘custom’ template but also display the ‘show details’ functionality from the standard template and the 4 checkboxes. How can I do that?
- Do you provide a ‘starter template/code’ which includes all the elements available? I would like to use it to build the ‘custom’ banner/dialog so I don’t have to start from scratch.
- Can I change the buttons on the cookie consent banner?
Troubleshooting
- Why is the cookie consent banner/dialog not showing on my website?
- Why does it say TEST on my banner?
- Error: DOMAINNAME is not a valid domain. Please add it to the cookie consent manager to authorize the domain.
- I am trying to add the ‘preferences, statistics and marketing’ using a ‘custom’ template but with no success. I have also amended the CSS but it is not showing on my website. Can you help me?