I set a cookie using JavaScript when the user clicks a button:
document.cookie = "menuSize=Large";
I need to access this cookie in razor syntax so I can output the correct styles at the top of _Layout.cshtml every time the user changes pages:
@{
if (cookie == "Large")
{
<style>
LARGE STYLES
</style>
}
else
{
<style>
SMALL STYLES
</style>
}
}
I had to go to the headers and manually pull out my cookie THAT IS CREATED/SET ON THE CLIENT:
//HACK ridiculous i have to do all this instead of just getting the cookie from the cookies collection
var cookieFromHeaderString = (context.HttpContext.Request.Headers["Cookie"]).FirstOrDefault();
if (cookieFromHeaderString != null)
{
string[] strArray = cookieFromHeaderString.Split(new string[] { "; " }, StringSplitOptions.None);
string whCookie = strArray.Where(m => m.StartsWith("vpWH=")).FirstOrDefault();
if (whCookie != null)
{
int start = whCookie.IndexOf("=") + 1;
string cookieValue = whCookie.Substring(start);
string[] whArray = cookieValue.Split(' ');
int viewportWidth = 0;
int viewportHeight = 0;
if (whArray.Length == 2)
{
int.TryParse(whArray[0], out viewportWidth);
int.TryParse(whArray[1], out viewportHeight);
}
}
}
I was having the same problem and did it:
@using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
@{
if (HttpContext.Request.Cookies["menuSize"].Value == "Large")
{
<style>
LARGE STYLES
</style>
}
}