I just got the code for the new like button (the one that also includes the send button) and I am trying to set it to be in the center of the section it is installed in. However, it always stays on the left side of the section no matter what I do. I tried putting it inside many classes of , align, style or fixed position and none worked.
Here's the code:
<div id="fb-root"></div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=202863559776189&xfbml=1"></script><fb:like href="http://www.facebook.com/myid" ref="myPageLocation" send="true" layout="button_count" width="450" show_faces="false" font="verdana"></fb:like>
I would greatly appreciate any suggestion that helps.
Its probably a CSS issue from what I understand.
I have not tested it out, but in concept you could use a wrapper around your fb:like tag. Setting styles to the fb:like tag most likely won't work out as fine.
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I am having a problem getting a div containing facebook like/send buttons to expand when the buttons are clicked. I have searched and tried and tried to fix this, but I'm hitting a wall. I believe it has something to do with how the buttons render an iframe, but I'm not sure.
Here's the code, plain and simple (with an example link for og data).
<div id="fb_btns">
<fb:like href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/" data-send="true" layout="button_count" width="450" show_faces="false" ></fb:like>
</div>
and the non-expanding div can be seen here
http://spadeballink.com/GALLOWS/TheGoddamnGallows.html
Any help counts! Thanks in advance!
*Also there is no css declaring the height of this div, the only heights declared are for html and body to be 100% (needed for the background image).
Are you using XFBML or Iframe version of like button? For Iframe version you need to use layout=standard for people to be able to see fly-out comment box.
Using https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ to get the code, every time I enter my website www.dealhijack.com the Like Button on the right disappears. If add to my website /deals or anything then it works, but the root one dealhijack.com, the one that I want, does not work.
I do not understand why it does not like the website name. I could not find out why.
Any help in resolving it would be highly appreciated.
I've added http:// to your link, worked fine.
FB returned this code
<div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.dealhijack.com" data-send="true" data-width="450" data-show-faces="true"></div>
I'm using the following code for my like button
<fb:like id="facebook-like" href="http://mysite.com/index.php" layout="button_count" width="450" show_faces="false" font=""></fb:like>
Some users have experienced the like button not showing up. Noted in 3.6.17 but observed in other versions. I'm somewhat familier with the firefox iframe bug, but I was currious if anyone has any work arounds for the facebook like button.
Like buttons that are rendered with javascript (<div class="fb-like"/> and <fb:like/>) get height=0 if they are initially hidden (display:none).
To work around this, create the element with javascript after the container is displayed, and then run:
FB.XFBML.parse();
Example:
result.show();
var like_box = $(".fb-like-inactive", result);
like_box.removeClass("fb-like-inactive");
like_box.addClass("fb-like");
FB.XFBML.parse();
This CSS solved it for me
.fb-like span, .fb-like iframe { height:25px!important; width:150px!important}
This is still an issue, as can be seen here (also contains fix):
http://codepen.io/wiledal/pen/cGnyq
Firefox does not draw the Facebook-like if the div is hidden at the time of parsing. In the example above I delay the showing of a div after different times. You can see that a like-button shown after 500ms does not get rendered in Firefox.
I managed a work around which does not cut off the comment dialog after liking, simply by using min-height and min-width instead of set values that was previously proposed.
.fb-like span, .fb-like iframe {
min-width: 100px !important;
min-height: 20px !important;
}
I had the same problem on Firefox only (v.29.0.1) and it turned out to be AdBlock plus (v.2.6) blocking the Like and Share buttons from rendering.
Can you try calling the like button like so:
<div id="fb-root"></div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=195243810534550&xfbml=1"></script><fb:like href="http://mysite.com/index.php" send="false" width="450" show_faces="true" font=""></fb:like>
And let me know if you're still seeing issues.
Leaving an answer because I can't leave comments yet...
Oli's nice CSS hack looked like it worked initially:
.fb-like span, .fb-like iframe { height:25px!important; width:150px!important}
but it clipped the comment box that tried to pop up when we actually clicked the like button.
Per's delayed parse solution seems to do the job; here's a bit more detail. In our case we had the like button in a drop down menu, which looked like:
<ul>
<li class="control_menu">
<span>menu name</span>
<ul style="display: none;">
<li><div class="fb-like-inactive" data-href=...></li>
...
</ul>
</li>
...
</ul>
with code that shows the drop down ul when the user hovers over the control_menu element. We used this code to handle the delayed parsing:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.fb-like-inactive').closest('.control_menu').hover(function() {
var inactive = $(this).find('.fb-like-inactive');
if (inactive.length && (typeof FB != 'undefined')) {
inactive.removeClass('fb-like-inactive').addClass('fb-like');
FB.XFBML.parse(this);
}
});
});
It finds the fb-like-inactive buttons, then looks up the tree to find the containing control_menu elements, then attaches an event to the control_menu elements to detect when the user hovers over them. When it detects a hover for a particular menu element, it looks for inactive like buttons within that element, marks them as normal fb-like, and then parses just the content of that element.
I hope this saves someone some time.
I just spent an hour on this and on a much more basic level, you need to know that the Facebook buttons will not render when testing your page locally.
It may seems obvious but it will only work when rendering from a webserver.
Per's solution is based on the XFBML version of the fb button and I wasn't sure how to do this with the "html5 version" or if it is really possible but I found a CSS/JS solution that doesn't clip content instead so here it is:
html
<button class="like-button">I like this stuff</button>
<!-- This is a hidden like-box -->
<div class="social-share aural">...stuff...</div>
CSS:
html body .aural {
position: absolute;
font-size: 0;
left: -9999px;
}
jQuery:
$('body').on("click", '.like-button', function(e) {
var $socialShare = $('.social-share');
$socialShare.css({'font-size':'1em'});
var sw = $socialShare.width();
$socialShare.animate({left: sw-80}, 400);
});
You may have to use !important rule (in both css and js) or nest the .aural class depending on the rest of your css. If it doesn't work I'd suggest trying to change the default layout so it doesn't override .aural or nest .aural and as a last resort use !important..
I had the same problem but the culprit was setting tracking protection in about:config to true.
This tip turned me on to the idea initially:
Lifehacker: Turn on Tracking Protection in Firefox to Make Pages Load 44% Faster
My solution is completely different to any of the above.
I have a character animation in my page, and one of the elements has the id="body" (which is perfectly reasonable) however this seemed to kill the FB script.
As soon as I renamed my id, the share started working again; I can only presume there was some kind of conflict, as id'ed elements can be referenced as global variables.
I found this out through the usual process of removing elements until things worked, so I'm fairly sure it was this.
is it possible to create simple Like button for fan page? When I create official Like button, insert my fan page URL in form, it always generate button with image and page title as it is Like box not Like button. I just want simple Like button only with "Like" label and users count.
Is this an issue or default behavior, or just my misunderstanding?
Thanks for advice
Tomas Teicher
Did you mean you want this button?
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
Alternatively, you may use AddThis widget - They even provide analytics for you.
http://www.addthis.com/
I use the widget on this website: http://muamalat.com.my/consumer-banking/financing/mortgage/
I must have misread your question. In that case I've only come across this: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
Uncheck show faces, stream and header; that's the cleanest you could get. Is this what you're looking for?
I don't think AddThis has that feature you speak of. :)
One way to only show the like button by itself is to hide the top part of the button by setting the iframe dimensions to the size of the button: 60x20.
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?&href=&send=false&layout=button_count&width=60&height=20&show_faces=false&action=like&colosheme=light"
allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"
style="width: 60px; height: 20px;">
</iframe>
If you are using Iframe you need to place an http or https: because >iframe starts as
<iframe src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href= ................></iframe>
and you need to place
<iframe src="**http:**//www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href= ................></iframe>
The above answer did help me in finding that out.
If i read this correct, then it is definitely possible:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Put in your Page URL, for example: https://www.facebook.com/bladauhu
(that is my own page)
Uncheck Send Button, use Layout Style "button_count", uncheck Show Faces. Leave the rest as it is and click on the "Get code" button. Use the HTML5 or XFBML Version.
For me, this works just like every other Website and it shows the correct number of likes from the Facebook Page. No additional Images, just the plain and simple Like button.
Adding data-layout='button_count' to the HTML5 version worked for me:
<div class="fb-like" data-href="http://facebook.com/wewantoo" data-send="false" data-width="90" data-show-faces="false" data-layout='button_count'></div>
How to control the facebook like box stream part height alone. Its normal to reduce height of whole box but if tries to control it fans images are not shown.
The css .fan_box .page_stream{ ...,width:300px} to .fan_box .page_stream{...,width:150px}
i'm asking because the stream box inside iframe
There isn't a way to change the height. Facebook doesn't provide a way to change the height and there isn't a way to change the height using JavaScript and CSS.
Why can't I do it with JavaScript and CSS?
CSS just doesn't apply through an iFrame because thats how an iFrame works -- its basically a window to another page with its own CSS.
Javascript won't allow you to access the content of an iFrame if the URL of the iFrame is different than the page that contains the iFrame. Doing:
document.getElementById('iframeID').contentWindow.document
Will give you the following warning in Chrome.
Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL... Domains, protocols and ports must match.
The reason for this is to prevent XSS. Here's more on the Same Origin Policy.
I saw this on the Like Box page and figured I'd respond that you can use the 'data-height' attribute:
data-height="250"
Worked for me. Here's my example:
http://www.skonet.com/Resources/Articles/Index.aspx
you can reduce the height of the encasing div, hide its overflow and if you want push the top of it underneath an absolutely positioned element with a higher z-index like so:
<div style="position:absolute;z-index:2;top:0;left:0;width:300px;height:130px;background-color:#c0c;opacity:0.5;filter:alpha(opacity=50);-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)";"></div>
<div style="height:140px;width:140px;overflow:hidden;background-color:#0c0; margin-top: 60px;color: #fff;padding: 30px;font-family:arial;">
facebook like box goes here - only the green part will be visible if you make the pink box white and take out the 0.5 opacity and the bottom will get cut off so you can just display whatever part you want
</div>
I suppose you guys still need it and this is the most acurate trick I can provide and its also promising to work with the every day changing of the facebook like box by facebook.
Its a bit tricky but will work for you guys..
create two seprate like box of the same page, and close them in seprate div right in my case
<div class="up1">
facbook like box 1 code
<div class="up2">
facbook like box 2 code
Now in the css
use position absolute to class up1
.up1 {
position:absolute;
z-index:99999;
background-color:white;
}
and in up2
.up2 {
padding-top:87px;
}
What it does it will put the box 1 over the box 2 hiding its facebook like and bla bla making it feel like you have one box that contain picture and streaming of your desired lenght
I was looking around cos I had a problem like this one. Facebook has no standard way of customizing the stream if the faces and header are checked.
The solution is to take them differently. If you need the stream as long as 1000px, just uncheck everything except the stream. This will change its height from the default 300px to whatever value you type in the height field.
See an example below:
<div class="fb-like-box" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/MadeinHeavenEvents" data-width="800" data-height="2000" data-colorscheme="light" data-show-faces="false" data-header="false" data-stream="true" data-show-border="true"></div>
Then if you still need the one with faces, get a new code and set the height differently, then uncheck the others. Below is an example:
<div class="fb-like-box" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/MadeinHeavenEvents" data-width="800" data-height="500" data-colorscheme="light" data-show-faces="true" data-header="true" data-stream="false" data-show-border="true"></div>
Don't forget to add the SDK before these codes.
I know it's a long time since this was posted, but here is the solution that helped me today
Yes the data-height to 250 will work as it reduce the outside iframe
Now try to set data-height to 1000 - it is still 300px height,
because the inner div inside the iframe hard coded to 300px and
you can not control that as it is in a cross domain iframe...
<div class="fb-like-box" data-href="http://www.facebook.com/example" data-width="292" data-height="250" data-show-faces="true" data-stream="false" data-header="false"></div>
Adjust the height in this code to what works best for you.