I have created a custom Facebook like button.
How do make it that when I click the button, it will trigger the like button provided by Facebook like the one below?
According to facebook policy on Social Plugins point 4 states:
"Don’t obscure or cover elements of social plugins."
You can't change the image directly because it's provided by Facebook.
The Facebook button is in an iFrame with a source that is on a different domain, Facebook’s domain, and so you can't change the button as it's protected by the same-origin policy.
Also, Facebook’s policy prohibits changing their buttons and logos when using embedded content from Facebook, like social buttons.
So, you're not suppose to be able to change the FB buttons, and even if you could it would be against the Facebook Terms of Service.
But... if you still want to do it, you can use the native Facebook button and lay your own image on top or below the Facebook button to fake a custom button.
Laying your image on top is only possible if you use CSS3 pointer-events, wich will make your image click-through and the click event will work "through" your image and actually click the Facebook button.
This only works in newer browsers that support Pointer Events.
Another option is to lay the image behind the FB button and set the FB button's opacity to zero.
I have used this several times myself, and with a little digging around in the Facebook code you can attach hover events and everything else to make it look like a custom button. You would have to find what elements to set opacity : 0 on.
Have never spent any time trying to figure out how to make the unlike function of the original button work on a custom button, but it's probably possible.
All my attempts to actually trigger the FB button with javascript or jQuery trigger() have failed, but maybe someone else has figured out how to do it?
When you create a html element with fb-like class, facebook javascript SDK convert it with a like button when document loaded. You can make a custom element and trigger click event of like button when user click your custom button.
For example :
<input type="button" id="mycustombutton" value="Like">
<div style="display:none" class="fb-like" data-send="false" data-layout="button_count" data-width="450" data-show-faces="false"></div>
jQuery code:
$("#mycustombutton").click(function(){
$(".fb-like").find("a.connect_widget_like_button").click();
// You can look elements in facebook like button with firebug or developer tools.
});
Update
Facebook SDK has been creating like button in an iframe and browsers not allowing to intervention to the iframe in the page. I think add event listener to element in iframe does not possible anymore.
This is not allowed for the obvious reason that it would lead to fraud. Imagine if each time you clicked an image on the web you don't know if it's an actual image or if it will result in a like and show up in your FB feed. It would be disastrous.
If you do want to do this legitimately, you will need to create an app and have the user authorise the app when he visits your site. This will open a popup where the user agreed to let the app access his FB account. Once that is done you can then send the like request on behalf of the user via a server-side script. In other words, it's not worth the effort.
If on the other hand you just want to get the like count for a page and display it however you want, you can do so via a request to "http://graph.facebook.com/#{url}" which will return a JSON payload with the number of likes. In jQuery it would be:
$.getJSON("http://graph.facebook.com/#{url}", function(data) { alert(data.shares); });
I think that facebook goes through great lengths to make sure people can't trigger the "Like" button. This is to prevent scripts from automatically clicking the "Like" button when someone visits the site.
You may be able to override the style of it using CSS and have your image show instead.
You can overlay your button on top of the Facebook like button and use css to hide the Facebook button.
Not sure on the legalities of this however.
You could try to trigger an Ajax request like this
FB.api(
'me/og.likes',
'post',
{
object: "http://samples.ogp.me/226075010839791"
},
function(response) {
// handle the response
}
);
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/action-type/og.likes
http://sharingbuttons.io/ allows to make social media share buttons with no javascript at all (Not a like button like in the question…). For Facebook, it just uses a link like this:
<a href="https://facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsharingbuttons.io"
target="_blank" aria-label="Share on Facebook">Share on Facebook </a><br>Here on Stackoverflow, you have to cmd + click to open the link in a new window.
Customize it with your own CSS and, to mimic the share button, just open the url in a popup instead of a target="_blank".
Is it possible to customize the Facebook "Like" button? I have a specific image that I want to use instead of the default button on Facebook.
You can see here that the css modification of the like button is no longer possible.
http://web.archive.org/web/20110419195549/http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=236534
You set a color scheme to dark or light like this:
<div class="fb-like" (...) data-colorscheme="dark"></div>
However, Facebook Terms of Use don't allow to put a customized Facebook button image. It is obviously possible but apart from breaking their TOS you have no guarantee it'll work in the future.
I have generated facebook like code for the site Geoflake from this facebook url
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
When i click like in the "facebook test page", the count disappears.
Any one having same problem ?
While this isn't a strict answer, I can agree that there is a problem. What is the 'facebook test page.'
When I click on the 'like' button on the URL provided the usual 'share' prompt appears and quickly disappears. How did you generate the code? And, I know this is usually kind of offensive, but did you read through all of the instructions? From the end of that page
"When I click the Like button, the popup window (or "flyout") doesn't show. Why?
If the Like button is placed near the edge of an HTML element with the overflow property set to hidden, the flyout may be clipped or completely hidden when the button is clicked. This can be remedied by setting setting the overflow property to a value other than hidden, such as visible, scroll, or auto."
It looks like you are missing the quotes around the href attribute:
<fb:like href=http://geoflake.com/DLZ4d0b7a8 send="true" layout="button_count" width="50" show_faces="false"></fb:like>
Try fixing that first.
(Also, it seems like your site is redirecting to the mobile site on Safari -- at least on my Mac. Perhaps you are testing for generic Webkit instead of mobile webkit?)
I had two js scrips that are in my web page , one is with my app_id and another without app_id. I have removed one which doesn't have the app_id and it worked.
I am trying to add facebook 'like' buttons and tweet buttons at the end of each blog post on my tumblr blog. I used the 'minimalist' theme on tumblr. Ive tried just about every method to insert the html properly and nothing has worked. Below it the current full HTML that I am using. If you go to my site right now there is a facebook button and it actually works but there is a ton of blank space underneath that I cant get rid of. Also, it works in Safari but not Firefox which is odd. The fbook code is right before {/block:posts}. I've been able to look at other formats of buttons but they either like my entire page rather than individual posts or I have this same spacing/firefox issue. Can anyone help?
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I cant even get that. I've done this task a few times before with other themes and it is no problem at all. It sounds like you didn't uncheck the boxes on Facebook that enable the big black space go back to f.b. and get a new code made from the link page. Do not forget to uncheck the unneeded stuff or that will also be embedded in the code given you.
I'm making a mobile interface for my web app, and I'm trying to use anchor links to make navigation easier. My code is similar to this:
Jump to section 2
... lots of stuff here ...
<h2 id="section2">Section 2</h2>
The problem is that the link works only once. So if a user, using his iPhone, taps that link and jumps to section 2, then scrolls back to the top and clicks that link again it won't work. He has to refresh the page.
Is there any way to get around this?
Appreciate your help
Don't use id, use <a name="section2">Section 2</a>