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Motivation

When a user previously dismissed an announcement bar and a new announcement is published with a different themeConfig.announcementBar.id, the new announcement remains hidden on the first page load. It only appears after a subsequent refresh.

This occurred because getAnnouncementBarInlineScript only checked the stored docusaurus.announcement.dismiss flag and set data-announcement-bar-initially-dismissed="true" on <html>, which triggers CSS display: none on .announcementBar. While AnnouncementBarProvider correctly identifies the new id upon hydration and updates the state and storage, the initial HTML attribute was never cleared, leaving the element hidden until the next reload.

This PR updates getAnnouncementBarInlineScript to receive the configured announcementBar and verify that the stored docusaurus.announcement.id matches the configured id. If the id differs or has not been stored, the bar is not treated as initially dismissed.

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  • Added unit tests in packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/__tests__/inlineScripts.test.ts verifying that getAnnouncementBarInlineScript checks both the stored docusaurus.announcement.id and the dismiss flag, including when a custom site storage namespace is used.

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Fixes #12646

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Announcement bars are now checked against their ID when determining dismissal status. A previously dismissed announcement won’t hide a different announcement, and announcements without a custom ID use the default ID.

…12646)

The announcement bar inline script determined initial dismissal solely based on the stored dismiss flag, ignoring whether the configured announcement bar `id` had changed. As a result, when a new announcement with a different `id` was published, the bar remained hidden on initial page load for users who had previously dismissed an older announcement.

Verify the stored `docusaurus.announcement.id` against the configured `id` before treating the bar as dismissed.

Signed-off-by: praveen-kumary <praveenkumar2000y@gmail.com>
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Minor Escape the ID for the HTML script context.

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- Around line 98-100: Escape less-than characters in the JSON-serialized
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The announcement-bar inline script now receives the configured announcement ID. It treats the bar as not dismissed when the stored ID differs from the configured ID. Tests cover the default and -docs storage namespaces.

Changes: Announcement bar visibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Inline script announcement ID check
packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/inlineScripts.ts, packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/index.ts, packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/__tests__/inlineScripts.test.ts
The generated script compares the stored announcement ID with the configured ID before checking dismissal. The classic theme passes the announcement configuration to the script. Tests cover default and -docs storage keys.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • meta/docusaurus#12723: This PR changes theme configuration contracts that include the announcement-bar configuration read by this change.

Suggested labels: pr: bug fix

Suggested reviewers: slorber

Merge Risk: Low · up to 62836

An unusual announcement ID can prevent theme initialization on every page. Escaping the ID avoids this issue; using a different ID is a workaround.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 62836

The change corrects announcement visibility without introducing a demonstrated increase in attacker authority. The announcement configuration remains controlled by site authors, who already have HTML-authoring authority. Script-safe serialization would improve robustness for unusual IDs.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed behavior concerns announcement presentation in pages generated by the configured site. Browser storage values are compared as data, not evaluated as code. The inspected change does not add a demonstrated cross-tenant, service, credential, or privileged-data access path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — An ID containing </script> can terminate the generated script because JavaScript string escaping does not protect HTML script boundaries. This is newly exposed through the ID field, but no additional attacker authority is established: the same site configuration already supplies intentionally trusted raw announcement HTML. Deployment-specific delegation of ID-only editing was not evidenced.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Storage ownership and failure containment are unchanged. ID and dismissal writes remain separate, so interruption can leave a current ID paired with stale dismissal; later hydration cannot necessarily distinguish that state from a legitimate dismissal. Concurrent pages retain shared-key, last-writer-wins behavior. The inline script also retains its pre-existing localStorage backend mismatch when sessionStorage is configured. These are presentation-state limitations, not demonstrated security regressions introduced by the new read.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Use HTML-script-safe serialization for the configured ID, including escaping less-than characters, to prevent unusual operator-supplied IDs from terminating the shared initialization script. This improves robustness without implying a verified attacker-controlled exploit.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: checking the announcement bar ID in the inline script before the initial load.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #12646 requires a new announcement ID to show on the first page load after a previous dismissal. index.ts passes the configured announcementBar to getAnnouncementBarInlineScript. `inlineSc…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes are limited to the announcement-bar inline script, its call site, and focused unit tests. Each change supports the linked issue or verifies its behavior. No unrelated changes are shown.
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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Issue #12646 requires a new announcement ID to show on the first page load after a previous dismissal. index.ts passes the configured announcementBar to getAnnouncementBarInlineScript. inlineScripts.ts compares the stored announcement ID with the configured ID before it checks the dismiss flag. A missing or different ID returns false, so the initial-dismissed attribute does not hide the new bar. Tests cover the default namespace and the -docs namespace.

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packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/__tests__/inlineScripts.test.ts: 1

46-68: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the dismissal result, not only the script text.

The new assertions match substrings of the generated script. They never run isDismissed(). The generated function returns false on an ID mismatch and otherwise returns localStorage.getItem('docusaurus.announcement.dismiss') === 'true'. A script with the same expressions but different return values still passes all three assertions. For example, if the mismatch branch returned true, the ID comparison, the dismiss comparison, and the setAttribute(...) call would all still appear in the output. The -docs namespace test has the same gap. A regression in the ID check can therefore pass the test suite.

The current generator logic matches the intended behavior. The gap is that the tests do not exercise it. Add a behavioral test that runs the generated script with stubbed localStorage and document, then checks the attribute value:

Suggested fix
+
+describe('getAnnouncementBarInlineScript behavior', () => {
+  function runAnnouncementBarScript({
+    storage,
+    namespace = '',
+    id,
+  }: {
+    storage: Record<string, string>;
+    namespace?: string;
+    id: string;
+  }): unknown {
+    const attributes: Record<string, unknown> = {};
+    const script = getAnnouncementBarInlineScript({
+      siteStorage: {type: 'localStorage', namespace},
+      announcementBar: {id},
+    });
+    const localStorage = {
+      getItem: (key: string) => storage[key] ?? null,
+    };
+    const document = {
+      documentElement: {
+        setAttribute: (name: string, value: unknown) => {
+          attributes[name] = value;
+        },
+      },
+    };
+    new Function('localStorage', 'document', script)(localStorage, document);
+    return attributes['data-announcement-bar-initially-dismissed'];
+  }
+
+  it('does not mark the bar as dismissed when the stored ID differs', () => {
+    expect(
+      runAnnouncementBarScript({
+        id: 'announcement-2',
+        storage: {
+          'docusaurus.announcement.id': 'announcement-1',
+          'docusaurus.announcement.dismiss': 'true',
+        },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it('marks the bar as dismissed when the stored ID matches', () => {
+    expect(
+      runAnnouncementBarScript({
+        id: 'announcement-1',
+        storage: {
+          'docusaurus.announcement.id': 'announcement-1',
+          'docusaurus.announcement.dismiss': 'true',
+        },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('reads namespaced storage keys', () => {
+    expect(
+      runAnnouncementBarScript({
+        id: 'announcement-2',
+        namespace: '-docs',
+        storage: {
+          'docusaurus.announcement.id-docs': 'announcement-2',
+          'docusaurus.announcement.dismiss-docs': 'true',
+        },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

Append this block after the existing top-level describe('inlineScripts', ...) block. Keep the existing substring assertions. They still check the expected generated code.

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Add behavioral tests for getAnnouncementBarInlineScript that execute the
generated script with stubbed localStorage and document, then assert the
dismissal attribute is false for a mismatched stored ID and true for a matching
ID with dismissal set. Include coverage for namespaced storage keys, and retain
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Review comments at @packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/inlineScripts.ts:
- Around line 98-100: Escape less-than characters in the JSON-serialized
announcementBarId as \u003c before embedding it in the inline script’s
localStorage comparison; preserve the existing serialization and
AnnouncementBarIdStorageKey behavior.

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@packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/__tests__/inlineScripts.test.ts:
- Around line 46-68: Add behavioral tests for getAnnouncementBarInlineScript
that execute the generated script with stubbed localStorage and document, then
assert the dismissal attribute is false for a mismatched stored ID and true for
a matching ID with dismissal set. Include coverage for namespaced storage keys,
and retain the existing substring assertions in the inlineScripts tests.

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if (localStorage.getItem('${AnnouncementBarIdStorageKey}') !== ${JSON.stringify(
announcementBarId,
)}) {

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Escape the ID for the HTML script context.

If an ID contains </script>, JSON.stringify preserves it. The browser ends the script early, so theme and announcement initialization fail on every page. The configuration schema permits this ID. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Escape < as \u003c in the serialized ID before embedding it.

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Review comment at @packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/inlineScripts.ts around
lines 98 - 100:
Escape less-than characters in the JSON-serialized announcementBarId as \u003c
before embedding it in the inline script’s localStorage comparison; preserve the
existing serialization and AnnouncementBarIdStorageKey behavior.

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