I'm making a responsive site and need to include a Facebook Like-Box for the client's Facebook fanpage. The developer page for the like-box has a widget for customization, but it doesn't allow you to set a width in percentages.
I've searched around and the closest I've got was this page from 2010, which refers to a fb:fan widget that allows you to link custom CSS. I tried to get this tutorial to work but it fails with this error:
<fb:fan> requires one of the "id" or "name" attributes.
So, to recap, I need a Facebook Like Box that I can either set up to be fluid, or which allows me to pass custom CSS to the iFrame it generates. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?
In the 2017 release of Adobe Captivate, a Fluid Box is a layout model that provides the arrangement of the containers on a slide so that the objects inserted inside the container behave predictably when the slide accommodates different size devices.
Fluid Boxes might save you a lot of time, considering that you won't have to create design for every breakpoint and you don't have to align all objects differently, so that they would look good in different screen sizes.
I found this Gist today and it works perfectly: https://gist.github.com/2571173
/* Make the Facebook Like box responsive (fluid width)
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/ */
/* This element holds injected scripts inside iframes that in
some cases may stretch layouts. So, we're just hiding it. */
#fb-root {
display: none;
}
/* To fill the container and nothing else */
.fb_iframe_widget, .fb_iframe_widget span, .fb_iframe_widget span iframe[style] {
width: 100% !important;
}
You thought it couldn't be done? AHA! Have at you, Facebook and your wicked fixed-width ways: I wrote a JQuery script to undo all your evil!
$(document).ready(function(){
var fbWidth;
function attachFluidLikeBox(){
// the FBML markup: WIDTH is a placeholder where we'll insert our calculated width
var fbml = '<fb:like-box href="http://www.facebook.com/YOURFANPAGEORWHATEVS" width="WIDTH" show_faces="false" stream="true"></fb:like-box>';//$('#likeBoxTemplate').text().toString();
// the containing element in which the Likebox resides
var container = $('#likebox');
// we should only redraw if the width of the container has changed
if(fbWidth != container.width()){
container.empty(); // we remove any previously generated markup
fbWidth = container.width(); // store the width for later comparison
fbml = fbml.split('WIDTH').join(fbWidth.toString()); // insert correct width in pixels
container.html(fbml); // insert the FBML inside the container
try{
FB.XFBML.parse(); // parses all FBML in the DOM.
}catch(err){
// should Facebook's API crap out - wouldn't be the first time
}
}
}
var resizeTimeout;
// Resize event handler
function onResize(){
if(resizeTimeout){
clearTimeout(resizeTimeout);
}
resizeTimeout = setTimeout(attachFluidLikeBox, 200); // performance: we don't want to redraw/recalculate as the user is dragging the window
}
// Resize listener
$(window).resize(onResize);
// first time we trigger the event manually
onResize();
});
What is does is it adds a listener to the window's resize event. When it resizes, we check the width of the Likebox' containing element, generates new XFBML code with the correct width, replaces the containing element's children with said XFBML and then trigger the Facebook API to parse the XFBML again. I added some timeouts and checks to make sure it doesn't do anything stupid and only runs when it needs to.
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