Oct 24

Facebook fan box in IE

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Recently added a Facebook Fan/Like box widget to one of our sites. We used the following code and it worked great in our development environment when we tested it on Firefox and Safari.

<fb:fan href="http://www.facebook.com/obiweb"
   profileID="115185598512736"
   width="210" height="600" connections="0"></fb:fan>

But as is all too often the case when we tested it on IE it failed. No errors just a big blank space.

After some investigation it turns out that IE needs the Facebook namespace defined in the html tag. Adding the namespace as shown below fixed the problem.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">

The end result can be found on the Obiweb blog.

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