Facebook share link without JavaScript

Question

You could use

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=#url" target="_blank">
    Share
</a>

Currently there is no sharing option without passing current url as a parameter. You can use an indirect way to achieve this.

1. Create a server side page for example: "/sharer.aspx"
2. Link this page whenever you want the share functionality.
3. In the "sharer.aspx" get the refering url, and redirect user to "https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u={referer}"

Example ASP .Net code:

public partial class Sharer : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var referer = Request.UrlReferrer.ToString();

        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(referer))
        {
            // some error logic
            return;
        }

        Response.Clear();
        Response.Redirect("https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(referer));
        Response.End();
    }
}

Ps 2: As pointed out by Justin, check out Facebook's new Share Dialog. Will leave the answer as is for posterity. This answer is obsolete

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Short answer, yes there's a similar option for Facebook, that doesn't require javascript (well, there's some minimal inline JS that is not compulsory, see note).

Ps: The onclick part only helps you customise the popup a little bit but is not required for the code to work ... it will work just fine without it.

Facebook

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=URLENCODED_URL&t=TITLE"
   onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=300,width=600');return false;"
   target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook">
</a>

Twitter

<a href="https://twitter.com/share?url=URLENCODED_URL&via=TWITTER_HANDLE&text=TEXT"
   onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=300,width=600');return false;"
   target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter">
</a>

It is possible to include JavaScript in your code and still support non-JavaScript users.

If a user clicks any of the following links without JavaScript enabled, it will simply open a new tab:

<!-- Remember to change URL_HERE, TITLE_HERE and TWITTER_HANDLE_HERE -->
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=URL_HERE&t=TITLE_HERE" target="_blank" class="share-popup">Share on Facebook</a>
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=URL_HERE&via=TWITTER_HANDLE_HERE&text=TITLE_HERE" target="_blank" class="share-popup">Share on Twitter</a>
<a href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=URL_HERE" target="_blank" class="share-popup">Share on Googleplus</a>

Because they contain the share-popup class, we can easily reference these in jQuery, and change the window size to suit the domain we are sharing from:

$(".share-popup").click(function(){
    var window_size = "width=585,height=511";
    var url = this.href;
    var domain = url.split("/")[2];
    switch(domain) {
        case "www.facebook.com":
            window_size = "width=585,height=368";
            break;
        case "www.twitter.com":
            window_size = "width=585,height=261";
            break;
        case "plus.google.com":
            window_size = "width=517,height=511";
            break;
    }
    window.open(url, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,' + window_size);
    return false;
});

No more ugly inline JavaScript, or countless window sizing alterations. And it still supports non-JavaScript users.

Try these link types actually works for me.

https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=YOUR_URL_HERE
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=YOUR_URL_HERE
https://plus.google.com/share?url=YOUR_URL_HERE
https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=YOUR_URL_HERE

I know it's an old thread, but I had to do something like that for a project and I wanted to share the 2019 solution.

The new dialog API can get params and be used without any javascript.

The params are:

• app_id (Required)
• href The URL of the page you wish to share, in case none has passed will use the current URL.
• hashtag have to have the # symbol for example #amsterdam
• quote text to be shared with the link

You can create an href without any javascript what so ever.

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?&app_id=APP_ID&link=URI&display=popup&quote=TEXT&hashtag=#HASHTAG" target="_blank">Share</a>

One thing to consider is that Facebook is using Open Graph so in case your OG tags are not set properly you might not get the results you wish for.

You can use the Feed URL "Direct URL" option, as described on the Feed Dialog page:

You can also bring up a Feed Dialog by explicitly directing the user to the /dialog/feed endpoint:

  https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?  
  app_id=123050457758183&
  link=https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/&
  picture=http://fbrell.com/f8.jpg&
  name=Facebook%20Dialogs&
  caption=Reference%20Documentation&
  description=Using%20Dialogs%20to%20interact%20with%20users.&
  redirect_uri=http://www.example.com/response`

Looks like they no longer mention "sharing" anywhere in their docs; this has been replaced with the concept of adding to your Feed.

Lots of these answers no longer apply, so here's mine:

Use the Share Dialog described at the Facebook Dev Page.

Example:

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?
  app_id=<your_app_id>
  &display=popup
  &href=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.facebook.com%2Fdocs%2F
  &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.facebook.com%2Ftools%2Fexplorer

But you have to put in your registered app_id, the href, and a redirect uri.