ReCaptcha API v2 Styling
JavascriptCssCaptchaRecaptchaJavascript Problem Overview
I have not had much success finding how to style Google's new recaptcha (v2). The eventual goal is to make it responsive, but I am having difficulty applying styling for even simple things like width.
Their API documentation does not appear to give any specifics on how to control styling at all other than the theme parameter, and simple CSS & JavaScript solutions haven't worked for me.
Basically, I need to be able to apply CSS to Google's new version of reCaptcha. Using JavaScript with it is acceptable.
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
Overview:
Sorry to be the answerer of bad news, but after research and debugging, it's pretty clear that there is no way to customize the styling of the new reCAPTCHA controls. The controls are wrapped in an iframe
, which prevents the use of CSS to style them, and Same-Origin Policy prevents JavaScript from accessing the contents, ruling out even a hacky solution.
Why No Customize API?:
Unlike reCAPTCHA API Version 1.0, there are no customize options in API Version 2.0. If we consider how this new API works, it's no surprise why.
Are you a robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA”:
Excerpt from> While the new reCAPTCHA API may sound simple, there is a high degree of sophistication behind that modest checkbox. CAPTCHAs have long relied on the inability of robots to solve distorted text. However, our research recently showed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy. Thus distorted text, on its own, is no longer a dependable test. > > To counter this, last year we developed an Advanced Risk Analysis backend for reCAPTCHA that actively considers a user’s entire engagement with the CAPTCHA—before, during, and after—to determine whether that user is a human. This enables us to rely less on typing distorted text and, in turn, offer a better experience for users. We talked about this in our Valentine’s Day post earlier this year.
If you were able to directly manipulate the styling of the control elements, you could easily interfere with the user-profiling logic that makes the new reCAPTCHA possible.
What About a Custom Theme?:
Now the new API does offer a theme
option, by which you can choose a preset theme such as light
and dark
. However there is not presently a way to create a custom theme. If we inspect the iframe
, we will find the theme
name is passed in the query string of the src
attribute. This URL looks something like the following.
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/anchor?...&theme=dark&...
This parameter determines what CSS class name is used on the wrapper element in the iframe
and determines the preset theme to use.
Digging through the minified source, I found that there are actually 4 valid theme values, which is more than the 2 listed in the documentation, but default
and standard
are the same as light
.
We can see the code that selects the class name from this object here.
There is no code for a custom theme, and if any other theme
value is specified, it will use the standard
theme.
In Conclusion:
At present, there is no way to fully style the new reCAPTCHA elements, only the wrapper elements around the iframe
can be stylized. This was almost-certainly done intentionally, to prevent users from breaking the user profiling logic that makes the new captcha-free checkbox possible. It is possible that Google could implement a limited custom theme API, perhaps allowing you to choose custom colors for existing elements, but I would not expect Google to implement full CSS styling.
Solution 2 - Javascript
As guys mentioned above, there is no way ATM. but still if anyone interested, then by adding in just two lines you can at least make it look reasonable, if it break on any screen. you can assign different value in @media query.
<div id="recaptchaContainer" style="transform:scale(0.8);transform-origin:0 0"></div>
Hope this helps anyone :-).
Solution 3 - Javascript
I use below trick to make it responsive and remove borders. this tricks maybe hide recaptcha message/error.
This style is for rtl lang but you can change it easy.
.g-recaptcha {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
background: #f9f9f9;
overflow: hidden;
}
.g-recaptcha > * {
float: right;
right: 0;
margin: -2px -2px -10px;/*remove borders*/
}
.g-recaptcha::after{
display: block;
content: "";
position: absolute;
left:0;
right:150px;
top: 0;
bottom:0;
background-color: #f9f9f9;
clear: both;
}
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="Your Api Key"></div>
<script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?hl=fa'></script>
Solution 4 - Javascript
Add a data-size property to the google recaptcha element and make it equal to "compact" in case of mobile.
Refer: google recaptcha docs
Solution 5 - Javascript
Unfortunately we cant style reCaptcha v2, but it is possible to make it look better, here is the code:
.g-recaptcha-outer{
text-align: center;
border-radius: 2px;
background: #f9f9f9;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #37474f;
border-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 2px;
}
.g-recaptcha-inner{
width: 154px;
height: 82px;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.g-recaptcha{
position:relative;
left: -2px;
top: -1px;
}
<div class="g-recaptcha-outer">
<div class="g-recaptcha-inner">
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-size="compact" data-sitekey="YOUR KEY"></div>
</div>
</div>
Solution 6 - Javascript
What you can do is to hide the ReCaptcha Control behind a div. Then make your styling on this div. And set the css "pointer-events: none" on it, so you can click through the div (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3680429/click-through-a-div-to-underlying-elements).
The checkbox should be in a place where the user is clicking.
Solution 7 - Javascript
You can recreate recaptcha , wrap it in a container and only let the checkbox visible. My main problem was that I couldn't take the full width so now it expands to the container width. The only problem is the expiration you can see a flick but as soon it happens I reset it.
See this demo http://codepen.io/alejandrolechuga/pen/YpmOJX
function recaptchaReady () {
grecaptcha.render('myrecaptcha', {
'sitekey': '6Lc7JBAUAAAAANrF3CJaIjt7T9IEFSmd85Qpc4gj',
'expired-callback': function () {
grecaptcha.reset();
console.log('recatpcha');
}
});
}
.recaptcha-wrapper {
height: 70px;
overflow: hidden;
background-color: #F9F9F9;
border-radius: 3px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.08);
height: 70px;
position: relative;
margin-top: 17px;
border: 1px solid #d3d3d3;
color: #000;
}
.recaptcha-info {
background-size: 32px;
height: 32px;
margin: 0 13px 0 13px;
position: absolute;
right: 8px;
top: 9px;
width: 32px;
background-image: url(https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/api2/logo_48.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.rc-anchor-logo-text {
color: #9b9b9b;
cursor: default;
font-family: Roboto,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 10px;
margin-top: 5px;
text-align: center;
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
top: 37px;
}
.rc-anchor-checkbox-label {
font-family: Roboto,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 17px;
left: 50px;
top: 26px;
position: absolute;
color: black;
}
.rc-anchor .rc-anchor-normal .rc-anchor-light {
border: none;
}
.rc-anchor-pt {
color: #9b9b9b;
font-family: Roboto,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 8px;
font-weight: 400;
right: 10px;
top: 53px;
position: absolute;
a:link {
color: #9b9b9b;
text-decoration: none;
}
}
g-recaptcha {
// transform:scale(0.95);
// -webkit-transform:scale(0.95);
// transform-origin:0 0;
// -webkit-transform-origin:0 0;
}
.g-recaptcha {
width: 41px;
/* border: 1px solid red; */
height: 38px;
overflow: hidden;
float: left;
margin-top: 16px;
margin-left: 6px;
> div {
width: 46px;
height: 30px;
background-color: #F9F9F9;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid red;
transform: translate3d(-8px, -19px, 0px);
}
div {
border: 0;
}
}
<script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?onload=recaptchaReady&&render=explicit'></script>
<div class="recaptcha-wrapper">
<div id="myrecaptcha" class="g-recaptcha"></div>
<div class="rc-anchor-checkbox-label">I'm not a Robot.</div>
<div class="recaptcha-info"></div>
<div class="rc-anchor-logo-text">reCAPTCHA</div>
<div class="rc-anchor-pt">
<a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/" target="_blank">Privacy</a>
<span aria-hidden="true" role="presentation"> - </span>
<a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/" target="_blank">Terms</a>
</div>
</div>
Solution 8 - Javascript
Great! Now here is styling available for reCaptcha.. I just use inline styling like:
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" style="transform: scale(1.08); margin-left: 14px;"></div>
whatever you wanna to do small customize in inline styling...
Hope it will help you!!
Solution 9 - Javascript
Just adding a hack-ish solution to make it responsive.
Wrap the recaptcha in an extra div:
<div class="recaptcha-wrap">
<div id="g-recaptcha"></div>
</div>
Add styles. This assumes the dark theme.
// Recaptcha
.recaptcha-wrap {
position: relative;
height: 76px;
padding:1px 0 0 1px;
background:#222;
> div {
position: absolute;
bottom: 2px;
right:2px;
font-size:10px;
color:#ccc;
}
}
// Hides top border
.recaptcha-wrap:after {
content:'';
display: block;
background-color: #222;
height: 2px;
width: 100%;
top: -1px;
left: 0px;
position: absolute;
}
// Hides left border
.recaptcha-wrap:before {
content:'';
display: block;
background-color: #222;
height: 100%;
width: 2px;
top: 0;
left: -1px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
}
// Makes it responsive & hides cut-off elements
#g-recaptcha {
overflow: hidden;
height: 76px;
border-right: 60px solid #222222;
border-top: 1px solid #222222;
border-bottom: 1px solid #222;
position: relative;
box-sizing: border-box;
max-width: 294px;
}
This yields the following:
It will now resize horizontally, and doesn't have a border. The recaptcha logo would get cut off on the right, so I am hiding it with a border-right. It's also hiding the privacy and terms links, so you may want to add those back in.
I attempted to set a height on the wrapper element, and then vertically center the recaptcha to reduce the height. Unfortunately, any combo of overflow:hidden and a smaller height seems to kill the iframe.
Solution 10 - Javascript
in the V2.0 it's not possible. The iframe blocks all styling out of this. It's difficult to add a custom theme instead of the dark or light one.
Solution 11 - Javascript
With the integration of the invisible reCAPTCHA you can do the following:
>To enable the Invisible reCAPTCHA, rather than put the parameters in a div, you can add them directly to an html button. > >a. data-callback=””. This works just like the checkbox captcha, but is required for invisible. > > b. data-badge: This allows you to reposition the reCAPTCHA badge (i.e. logo and >‘protected by reCAPTCHA’ text) . Valid options as ‘bottomright’ (the default), >‘bottomleft’ or ‘inline’ which will put the badge directly above the button. If you >make the badge inline, you can control the CSS of the badge directly.
Solution 12 - Javascript
In case someone struggling with the recaptcha of contact form 7 (wordpress) here is a solution working for me
.wpcf7-recaptcha{
clear: both;
float: left;
}
.wpcf7-recaptcha{
margin-right: 6px;
width: 206px;
height: 65px;
overflow: hidden;
border-right: 1px solid #D3D3D3;
}
.wpcf7-recaptcha iframe{
padding-bottom: 15px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #D3D3D3;
background: #F9F9F9;
border-left: 1px solid #d3d3d3;
}
Solution 13 - Javascript
Late to the party, but maybe my solution will help somebody.
I haven't found any solution that works on a responsive website when the viewport changes or the layout is fluid.
So I've created a jQuery script for django-cms that is dynamically adapting to a changing viewport. I'm going to update this response as soon as I have the need for a modern variant of it that is more modular and has no jQuery dependency.
html
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="{site_key}" data-size={size}>
</div>
css
.g-recaptcha { display: none; }
.g-recaptcha.g-recaptcha-initted {
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
}
.g-recaptcha.g-recaptcha-initted > * {
transform-origin: top left;
}
js
window.djangoReCaptcha = {
list: [],
setup: function() {
$('.g-recaptcha').each(function() {
var $container = $(this);
var config = $container.data();
djangoReCaptcha.init($container, config);
});
$(window).on('resize orientationchange', function() {
$(djangoReCaptcha.list).each(function(idx, el) {
djangoReCaptcha.resize.apply(null, el);
});
});
},
resize: function($container, captchaSize) {
scaleFactor = ($container.width() / captchaSize.w);
$container.find('> *').css({
transform: 'scale(' + scaleFactor + ')',
height: (captchaSize.h * scaleFactor) + 'px'
});
},
init: function($container, config) {
grecaptcha.render($container.get(0), config);
var captchaSize, scaleFactor;
var $iframe = $container.find('iframe').eq(0);
$iframe.on('load', function() {
$container.addClass('g-recaptcha-initted');
captchaSize = captchaSize || { w: $iframe.width() - 2, h: $iframe.height() };
djangoReCaptcha.resize($container, captchaSize);
djangoReCaptcha.list.push([$container, captchaSize]);
});
},
lateInit: function(config) {
var $container = $('.g-recaptcha.g-recaptcha-late').eq(0).removeClass('.g-recaptcha-late');
djangoReCaptcha.init($container, config);
}
};
window.djangoReCaptchaSetup = window.djangoReCaptcha.setup;
Solution 14 - Javascript
I came across this answer trying to style the ReCaptcha v2 for a site that has a light and a dark mode. Played around some more and discovered that besides transform
, filter
is also applied to iframe
elements so ended up using the default/light ReCaptcha and doing this when the user is in dark mode:
.g-recaptcha {
filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);
}
The hue-rotate(180deg)
makes it so that the logo is still blue and the check-mark is still green when the user clicks it, while keeping white invert()
'ed to black and vice versa.
Didn't see this in any answer or comment so decided to share even if this is an old thread.
Solution 15 - Javascript
if you use scss, that worked for me:
.recaptcha > div{
transform: scale(0.84);
transform-origin: 0;
}
Solution 16 - Javascript
If someone is still interested, there is a simple javascript library (no jQuery dependency), named custom recaptcha. It lets you customize the button with css and implement some js events (ready/checked). The idea is to make the default recaptcha "invisible" and put a button over it. Just change the id of the recaptcha and that's it.
<head>
<script src="https://azentreprise.org/download/custom-recaptcha.min.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
#captcha {
float: left;
margin: 2%;
background-color: rgba(72, 61, 139, 0.5); /* darkslateblue with 50% opacity */
border-radius: 2px;
font-size: 1em;
color: #C0FFEE;
}
#captcha.success {
background-color: rgba(50, 205, 50, 0.5); /* limegreen with 50% opacity */
color: limegreen;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="captcha" data-sitekey="your_site_key" data-label="Click here" data-label-spacing="15"></div>
</body>
See https://azentreprise.org/read.php?id=1 for more information.
Solution 17 - Javascript
I am just adding this kind of solution / quick fix so it won't get lost in case of a broken link.
Link to this solution "Want to add link How to resize the Google noCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA | The Geek Goddess" was provided by Vikram Singh Saini and simply outlines that you could use inline CSS to enforce framing of the iframe.
// Scale the frame using inline CSS
<div class="g-recaptcha" data-theme="light"
data-sitekey="XXXXXXXXXXXXX"
style="transform:scale(0.77);
-webkit-transform:scale(0.77);
transform-origin:0 0;
-webkit-transform-origin:0 0;
">
</div>
// Scale the images using a stylesheet
<style>
#rc-imageselect, .g-recaptcha {
transform:scale(0.77);
-webkit-transform:scale(0.77);
transform-origin:0 0;
-webkit-transform-origin:0 0;
}
</style>
Solution 18 - Javascript
You can use some CSS for Google reCAPTCHA v2 styling on your website:
– Change background, color of Google reCAPTCHA v2 widget:
.rc-anchor-light {
background: #fff!important;
color: #fff!important; }
or
.rc-anchor-normal{
background: #000 !important;
color: #000 !important; }
– Resize the Google reCAPTCHA v2 widget by using this snippet:
.rc-anchor-light {
transform:scale(0.9);
-webkit-transform:scale(0.9); }
– Responsive your Google reCAPTCHA v2:
@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
.rc-anchor-light {
transform:scale(0.85);
-webkit-transform:scale(0.85); }
}
All elements, property of CSS above that’s just for your reference. You can change them by yourself (only using CSS class selector).
Refer on OIW Blog - How To Edit CSS of Google reCAPTCHA (Re-style, Change Position, Resize reCAPTCHA Badge)
You can also find out Google reCAPTCHA v3's styling there.
Solution 19 - Javascript
You can also choose between a dark or light ReCaptcha theme. I used this in one of my Angular 8 Apps
Solution 20 - Javascript
A bit late but I tried this and it worked to make the Recaptcha responsive on screens smaller than 460px width. You can't use css selector to select elements inside the iframe. So, better use the outermost parent element which is the class g-recaptcha to basically zoom-out i.e transform the size of the entire container. Here's my code which worked:
@media(max-width:459.99px) {
.modal .g-recaptcha {
transform:scale(0.75);
-webkit-transform:scale(0.75); }
}
}
Solution 21 - Javascript
Incase someone wants to resize recaptcha for small devices.
I was using recaptcha V2 with primeng p-captcha
(for angular). The issue was that for smaller screens it would go out of the screen.
Although you can't actually resize it (the external thing and all everyone has explained it above) but there is a way with transform
property (scaling the the container)
this was my code below the way, I achieved it
p-captcha div div {
transform:scale(0.9) !important;
-webkit-transform:scale(0.9) !important;
transform-origin:0 0 !important;
-webkit-transform-origin:0 0 !important;
}
Other than p-captcha
you can use this code snippet below
.g-recaptcha {
transform:scale(0.9);
transform-origin:0 0;
}
Before
After
Solution 22 - Javascript
Topic is old, but I also wanted to scale the reCAPTCHA widget -- but to make it bigger for phone users, unlike many others who wanted it smaller. The only way that worked was transform: scale(x), but that seemed to make the widget too wide for my page, thus shrinking the rest of the form on the page. Using a container div as shown below fixed my problem, and hopefully it will help someone else who thinks a bigger version is better on a small screen.
<style>
:root {
/* factor to scale the Google widget in potrait mode (on a phone) */
--recaptcha-scale: 2;
}
@media screen and (orientation: portrait) {
/* needed to rein in the width of inner div when it is scaled */
#g_recaptcha_div_container {
width: calc(100vmin / var(--recaptcha-scale));
}
#g_recaptcha_div {
transform: scale(var(--recaptcha-scale));
transform-origin: 0 0;
}
#submit_button {
width: 65vmin;
height: 9vmin;
font-size: 7vmin;
/* needed to scoot the button out from under the scaled div */
margin-top: 10vmin;
}
}
</style>
<html>
<!-- top of form with a bunch of fields to create an acct -->
<div id="g_recaptcha_div_container">
<div id="g_recaptcha_div" class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="foo">
</div>
</div>
<input id="submit_button" type="submit" value="Create Account">
<!-- bottom of form -->
</html>