jQuery EU Cookie Law popups

UPDATED: GDPR compliance with the jQuery EU Cookie Law plugin

The EU Cookie Law does actually seem to apply to most of our websites — we are based in the UK and are using Google Analytics, so there is no way out. Useless as it might be the e-Privacy Directive, the worst part is the scam-like pages that offer “solutions”. Instead, I just went ahead and created a plugin that can be installed by adding 4 lines of code.

An easy-to-install jQuery plugin to create EU Cookie Law popups.

Supports multiple layouts out of the box. Works well with Bootstrap 3. Easy to customize markup and CSS.

This is the demo page. For the code, install instructions and to see how amazingly free it is, go to Github.

Get started

To get started, first include jQuery and import the plugin’s files:

<script src=”js/jquery-2.1.3.min.js”></script>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”css/jquery-eu-cookie-law-popup.css”/>
<script src=”js/jquery-eu-cookie-law-popup.js”></script>

(Mind you, you need to run the code on a webserver to be able to set cookies.)

Simple popup

In its simplest form, you can add an EU Cookie Law popup by simply adding the “eupopup” classes to any HTML tag.
<body class=”eupopup eupopup-top”>

You can also choose from these layouts:

jQuery EU Cookie Law popups (demo)

  • Top of the page (“eupopup”, or “eupopup eupopup-top”)
  • Fixed banner on top (“eupopup eupopup-fixedtop”)
  • Fixed to bottom (“eupopup eupopup-bottom”)
  • Fixed window, to bottom left (“eupopup eupopup-bottomleft”)
  • Fixed window, bottom right (“eupopup eupopup-bottomright”)
  • Inline (“eupopup eupopup-block”)

And these colours or styles:

jQuery EU Cookie Law popups (demo)

  • White text on dark background (“eupopup-color-default”)
  • Dark text on light background (“eupopup-color-inverse”)
  • Compact (“eupopup-style-compact”)

Custom HTML

To use a custom HTML markup, you can either add it as a Javascript parameter (read about it later), or by adding a DIV with the classname “eupopup-markup”.
<div class=”eupopup eupopup-container eupopup-container-block”>
  <div class=”eupopup-markup”>
    <div class=”eupopup-head”>This website is using cookies</div>
    <div class=”eupopup-body”>We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue using the site, we\’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on this website.</div>
    <div class=”eupopup-buttons”>
      <a href=”#” class=”eupopup-button eupopup-button_1″>Continue</a>
      <a href=”http://www.wimagguc.com/?cookie-policy” target=”_blank” class=”eupopup-button eupopup-button_2″>Learn more</a>
    </div>
    <div class=”clearfix”></div>
    <a href=”#” class=”eupopup-closebutton”>x</a>
  </div>
</div>

Parameters

The script takes quite a few parameters. The suggested method to override these is from the init method (find the out-of-the-box one in the jquery-eu-cookie-law-popup.js):
$(document).euCookieLawPopup().init({
  cookiePolicyUrl : ‘http://www.wimagguc.com/?cookie-policy’,
  popupPosition : ‘top’,
  colorStyle : ‘default’,
  compactStyle : false,
  popupTitle : ‘This website is using cookies’,
  popupText : ‘We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we\’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on this website.’,
  buttonContinueTitle : ‘Continue’,
  buttonLearnmoreTitle : ‘Learn more’,
  buttonLearnmoreOpenInNewWindow : true,
  agreementExpiresInDays : 30,
  autoAcceptCookiePolicy : false,
  htmlMarkup : null
});

Events

If you need to be notified about the consent somewhere in your code (for example, to enable the cookies in other parts of your software), you can listen to the ‘user_cookie_consent_changed’ event.
$(document).bind(“user_cookie_consent_changed”, function(event, object) {
  // true or false
  console.log(“User consent: ” + $(object).attr(‘consent’) );
});

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Released under MIT, do-with-the-code-whatever-you-please License