I'd like to right align the Facebook like button, so that regardless of whether 0 or 10,000,000 people have liked it it lines up with the right side of the page. Is this possible?? I've looked everywhere to no avail.
Thanks for helping!
This is what we're looking to do, but right now we have to set a fixed width on the like button, so if the like count is 1 - the page isn't aligned properly, or if the like count is 250 the page isn't aligned properly.
You can wrap the facebook button inside a div, and set the div overflow hidden, just to make sure that it wont exceed the fixed width.
.mybutton{
width:50px;
overflow:hidden;
}
You can see this jsfiddle.
http://jsfiddle.net/62sCG/1/
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I'm generating a like button with Facebook's 'standard' layout for my site via https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ . I've set its width to 200 pixels, but notice that setting it to lower than 225 pixels has no effect, and the documentation on that page indeed specifies 225px as the minimum width for the standard layout. Unfortunately I need to make it 200 pixels wide to fit my site's design. Is there any way to force it into this width?
(The site's at http://gwwc2.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/ if you want to have a play with Firebug, though the like button gets generated by javascript so you'd probably have to duplicate that page and edit its source.)
The reason for the width restriction is the text displayed to non logged in users.
You'll find that if you shrink lower than 225px for that button style some users will find your layout disrupted (I've tried exactly this, the results were not good).
You can, however, choose a different button style.
Uncheck the send button option
Choose the button_count option
Set the width to 200px
Uncheck show faces
And you'll get this:-
<div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.example.com" data-send="false" data-layout="button_count" data-width="200" data-show-faces="false" data-font="arial"></div>
Which fits your width requirement. Using box_count will also work well.
Take out &width=225 in the iFrame src attribute and pass no width at all. In the iframe style attribute, specify a css value width:200px; If you pass a value smaller than the minimum in the source URL, facebook will ignore it, but if you custom style the iframe itself to be that width, the contents will squeeze inside.
Create a CSS rule that states iframe { width:200px !important; )
I would make that rule specific to whatever DIV or container your Facebook widget is inside of. And of course, if it looks bad after you do this, you can take it out. But if you're just including a "Like" button (no faces), it should work.
The button-count Layout Style height of the "Like" button and corresponding counter block is 20px high. Is there any way to shrink that block to 16px using css of jQuery or any other method?
Thanks
It can't be done. The only customization you can do is what you see here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
See this article on why it's so difficult to resize iframes:
http://css-tricks.com/cross-domain-iframe-resizing/
Actually you can hide whatever you like by wrapping it with a div and doing some css. Or you can !important override any of the CSS facebook uses by doing it in your own stylesheet. Just open up your page in firebug after adding the button and you can figure out what css to override. Honestly it's not worth it though, the facebook iframe for their button tears up android browsers and slows down every page you put it on.
I added the button to a page and only wanted the button not a count or their blown out text message beside it. so I created a div with the id="facebook" and wrapped it around the div they give you on the dev site. Then added this CSS to my stylesheet.
#facebook {
max-width:42px;
max-height:20px;
overflow:hidden;
float:left;
}
You can use a couple of div's to wrap it then change the centering of the button as well using negative margins on the inner div. But again it's not honestly worth it to me so I stopped sending links to facebook and stick with twitter and pinterest.
Hope that helps.
I am having an issue where the background image is cutting off to the right when you scroll left to right. This is happening when the app is hosted in the iframe for our business facebook page, not when you go to apps.facebook.com. I have changed the canvas width to fluid and it is not helping.
This is an example of what I am talking about, try scrolling to the right:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/TeleManager-Technologies-Inc/134181063301299?sk=app_241678922556190
This is the link for an actual app:
http://apps.facebook.com/irefill
As you can see in the second link, nothing is being cut off to the side. I tried playing with some css properties such as "overflow" and it still didn't help.
Thank you for your help.
I added a width to your body tag within side of the iframe body - {width:1000px;}
Because you hadn't declared a width on the , it was inheriting the width from the iframe it is nested in, which is 520px, the max-width for facebook page tabs.
Add on a width to your that is larger than the width of the image that is being cut off and you should be good to go.
You only have 520 pixel width to stay inside of on Facebook.
try limiting the
body{width:520px;}
I am able to put a Facebook like button on my website, but how do I make it to be right-aligned within the div/iframe it is in?
I tried applying various CSS properties, but I could not get anything to move in the iframe.
I think this link could help too:
http://shades-of-orange.com/post/2011/01/09/Embed-Facebook-Like-Button-e28093-Right-Align-with-css-and-Settings.aspx
It says to set the width to "0". Then the box will be autoresize by Facebook and you can apply a float right to that box.
iframe is an inline element, you can use
text-align: right
for a div that contains that iframe, or float the iframe to the right, but just make sure to clear the float afterwards.
sample: http://jsfiddle.net/Mujj6/3/
and: http://jsfiddle.net/Mujj6/5/
Seems as though there are many ways to achieve this that work in different situations.
None of the above seemed to make any difference to the position of my 'like' button, however a little trial and error with a "margin-left" tag and I got it in the right place.
Thanks for everyone's input. The position relative trick doesn't always do it for me:
div.around-fb-like{
position:relative;
float:right;
}
So far this has been more dependable:
#fb-root{
position:absolute;
left:-1000%;
}
What is described in Embed Facebook Like button – Right align with CSS and settings works. However, in my website, I had to change the style to
position:relative; right:-130px;
the 'like' social plug-in seems to have changed styles within the iframe. what's the best way to prevent the 'like' from flowing right, on the following page?
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With DIV it's easy:
.fb-like{ vertical-align:top;}
posted also on SimpleMediaCode.info ( http://e-art.lv/x/fbas )
I'm having a problem with the height of the Facebook Like button. I use the XFBML version with this tag
<fb:like layout="standard" show_faces="true" width="440" action="recommend" colorscheme="light"></fb:like>
On some sites, the height of the iframe which contains the button is dynamic. It has the height of 61px, when there are "faces" to display and 23px when there are no faces to display. This changes dynamcally when the user presses the like button (and a his face appears undes the button).
Examples of sites where this works:
hobby.idnes.cz/v-boji-s-mokrou-travou-vitezi-vretenove-sekani-nad-rotacnimi-sekackami-13j-/hobby-zahrada.asp?c=A100604_134111_hobby-zahrada_bma
Facebook Like Button demo page - http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
Unfortunately, when I try to insert the tag into my page, the height of the iframe is set to 80px and it doesn't change.
My current solution is to set the height of the box to 23px and set the overflow CSS property of its container to hidden. But with this solution I lose the ability to show faces.
This problem is already posted here on Stack Overflow, but with no solution. - stackoverflow.com/questions/2777196/facebook-like-button-fblike-height-always-80px
I've spent about 6 hours trying to figure this problem out. But I still think there must be a simple solution for this.
Thanks for any suggestions.
If you don't want to show faces, and keep the static 23px height, you can set the show_faces parameter on the XFBML fb:like tag to false. If you DO want to show faces, I'd wrap the <fb:like> tag in a container div and set it's height to 61px. This should allow whatever content is around the like button to stay in place, and the content of the iframe/like button change as faces are added/removed.