Sep 9, 2011

Recent Facebook update causes your like button to appear TWICE!


I was shocked when one of my clients sent me a screen shot showing TWO facebook like buttons on his website - one under the other. I went in circles for a couple minutes trying to see if maybe something was happening twice in JavaScript when I found this article:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7343277/like-button-just-started-showing-duplicates-has-something-changed-on-facebooks

Here's what my code looked like:

// append like button
fbLike = $('
').appendTo(social);

Apparently, this recent FB update conflicts with the class name 'fb-like' ANYWHERE in your DOM. All I had to do was rename my div wrapper from fb-like to fblike and everything was fixed.

How odd is that!

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