How can I hide like button or div from Firefox? - facebook

I am building a web page and I have included Facebook's Like button. Works great in all browsers but not in Firefox. When clicked in Firefox, it creates an endless loop of opening and closing a facebook login window. This is a known issue that Facebook isn't looking like it will correct anytime soon.
Can anyone tell me what code I might write to hide the like button (or a div containing the like button) from Firefox only? I've never written code to detect a browser and then have my site function a certain way. Not a javascript guru here. Thanks!

You can do this using the navigator javascript object, but it sounds like you have deeper problems if the facebook like button is causing an endless loop of window loads. You most probably have other errors in your code. The button should work fine in firefox.
Here's how to text for firefox using the navigator object,
if (/Firefox[\/\s](\d+\.\d+)/.test(navigator.userAgent)){
// user using firefox
}
This code parses the userAgent string, the string that defines the user's browser, of the navigator object. It looks for a string of the format Firefox/x.x or Firefox x.x.

This should work for you
<div id="likeDiv">
my div
</div>
<script>
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1)
{
// Remove the element from the dom
var Node1 = document.getElementById('likeDiv');
Node1.removeChild(Node1.childNodes[0]);
}
</script>
Hope this helps

Related

Facebook like button flyout appears then disappears on a page with no other content

I have added a facebook like button to my page, however when it is clicked the flyout appears, and then disappears.
At first I thought it was other elements on the page hiding it, but the problem persisted even on blank pages.
Tried both the iframe and html 5 codes that were generated by facebook and neither seems to work.
iframe - http://jsfiddle.net/aDK95/1/
Html 5 - http://jsfiddle.net/L9nZZ/1/
In both cases it seems to been hidden by the hidden_elem class:
#facebook .hidden_elem {
display: none !important;
}
It seems very similar to this bug reported at FB that was reported in May. However there doesn't seem to be much movement on it.
Has anyone else come across this? Know of any work arounds?
I came across this bug and it flummoxed me for quite a while. The steps I took to rectify it are as follows:
Ensure that you have put in the Javascript SDK initialization
Make sure that the #fbroot div is not inside a hidden div
In the Open Graph tags on the page, the og:url has to be set to a https protocol
and not a http protocol
Run your page through the Facebook Debugger at https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug to check for any errors. Another interesting point which helped me resolve this was that when you put in your "URL to Like" value in the Like configurator, the dynamic like button generated shows whether that url would work well or not.

Images disappear when clicked on iPhone Safari

Ok, weird issue:
1) Go here on an iPhone (Safari browser): http://powellcreative.com/our-team/
2) Click any of the team images to get to the team member page
3) Click the back button on the browser
4) The image is disappeared on the Team page now
I know this question is kind of old, but I was looking for a solution to a similar problem and after searching, I found a solution. Hopefully this helps other people with the same problem. The problem is when you give iOS a javascript event like onmouseover or onmouseout it doesn't like it, mainly because when your finger is "mousing over" an element in iOS, you are actually clicking on it, so this is the solution I came up with that seems to reload images after hitting the back button in iOS.
Here it is:
Make sure all images are in their own separate div with a distinctive name.
Example:
<div name="div1"><img src="yourimage" onmouseover="javascript:this.src='yourimage2';" onmouseout="javascript:this.src='yourimage';"></div>
In the javascript head part of your page you want to insert this:
window.onpageshow =
function(event){
if (event.persisted){
//for every div and image you want changed back you can add a loop here to change all at once or just one div by name//
document.getElementById('div1').innerHTML = '<img src="yourimage" onmouseover="this.src="yourimage2";" onmouseout="this.src="yourimage";">';
}
}
This will check for page back since Mobile Safari uses bfcache and reload your image into the div. Hopefully this helps OP or someone else.

"Send" button popup not appearing correctly

I'm using the Facebook Like/Send buttons along with dynamically generated HTML (loaded via AJAX requests). I've found that even though the Send button works fine when the element exists on page load, dynamically created Send buttons aren't working correctly. Clicking the button activates it and the button greys out, but the popup doesn't appear.
Here is a demonstration of what is happening: http://jsfiddle.net/Daniel15/VxpSj/
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Yes, I can confirm the problem from your fiddle.
function addLikeButton()
{
// […]
FB.XFBML.parse(newEl);
document.getElementById('container').appendChild(newEl);
}
For some reason, this seems to be “the wrong way around”. Reverse the order of these two lines – put the new element into the DOM first and let FB.XFBML.parse parse it afterwards, then (from my test with your fiddle) it seems to work in the desired way.

Opening URI in overlay, not main page

On my page, overlays are loaded by inserting their content with jQuery and then fading in.
What I want to do is this:
When you click to open an overlay, an URI is loaded (e.g. news/12, where news is the category and 12 is the id of the item to load).
Except, instead of loading it in body, it should be loaded in the overlay.
In other words, I want to achieve something like on facebook, where you open an overlay, the url changes, but the main page stays the same.
I'm guessing you need ajax for this, but I have no idea whatsoever how to do it.
Thanks
It sounds like you want to use the new history.pushState(...) and history.popState(...) browser API.
This SO post might help you out: Change the URL in the browser without loading the new page using JavaScript
Use Boxy. See http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/boxy/tests.html#
AJAX example:
<a href='#' onclick='Boxy.load("test-1.html");'>Test 1</a>
See this question: Ajax - How to change URL by content
I solved it thanks to Lethargy's answer.
.pushState() is exactly what I need to have the URL reflect the contents of the overlay that is dynamically created with jQuery.
With some tweaking around and debugging I managed to get it all working.
Now my overlays (or popups, dialogs, whatever) are search engine ready, and the url is copy-pastable for users :)

nyroModal v2: How to validate form opened in iframe?

I'm trying to figure out how to validate a form opened using nyroModal.
The page is being opened as below on click of a button:
$(function() {
$('.btnedit').click(function() {
$.nmManual('form_page.php);
});
});
On the form that opens up, I have a few fields that are mandatory and a cancel & submit button.
<a class="nyroModalClose button" href="#" id="btn_submit">Submit</a>
On clicking of the submit button, I want to make sure the mandatory fields have value. If no, an error message should be displayed & the modal window should not close.
I'm trying to use the jquery validation plugin, but without success. The modal window always closes irrespective of the validation scripts.
I haven't found much info regarding form validation in a modal window. Is this not a preferred approach?
Thanks in advance.
I'm not able to help you about the jquery validation plugin in a modal window, but I know that using the instruction $.nmManual in that way, the form will not be placed inside the iframe tag, and if I remember correctly the content of new page will be added without header and body tags, so in a word incorrectly. I guess this can produce no validation.
To successfully open an iframe you need to use filters as described here:
Open iframe manually in nyroModal?
I hope this can help you.