Questions tagged [fbml]

Facebook Markup Language (FBML) enabled one to build Facebook applications that deeply integrate into a user's Facebook experience. Deprecated as of June 6, 2012. Not to be confused with xfbml.

Facebook Markup Language (FBML) is a way to tell servers how to interpret certain content and convert this markup to . It is an evolved subset of HTML from which Facebook has removed some elements, and added others which are specific to Facebook.

Deprecation

Facebook has decided to move away from FBML and towards IFrames while keeping a small subset of FBML available for social plugins and the JS SDK. As of June 6 2012, FBML will no longer function on applications.

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How to tell if a user is a fan of the fan page

I'm working on a FBML fan page for a client. I need to perform a check to see if the current user is a fan of the page. I tried using the JavaScript API but I've found this is not compatible with FBML. I have looked through the FBML page on the…
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jQuery parsing HTML unexpectedly and wrongly

So I have a non-jQuery solution to this problem, but I would rather use jQuery if there is a way, and also I am very curious as to why this is happening. I have a Facebook iframe application, and I am using Facebox to dynamically load a some XFBML…
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What is the API for Facebook 'profile stream' aka wall posts?

Is there an API call, and if so, which call to get the 'posts to my wall from myself and others' on Facebook? It seems like it could be filtered out of the Facebook stream API, but it's not clear how that works to me. This link seems to imply it's…
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Facebook like with FB.Event.subscribe

I currently have a like button on my app and I need to detect when this is clicked so that I can trigger some javascript. Currently I use this: FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function(response) {}); In order for this to work you must use the…
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Embedding open graph video doesn't use video player

I've been in, around, and through a good chunk of the internets looking for an answer to this: I'm trying to embed a video in Facebook using the og:video tag, but despite the fact that the facebook linter keeps showing 'status: Video embedding on…
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FBML apps fail under HTTPS

When setting in the developer console a secure url (https), and trying to load the canvas under facebook: https://apps.facebook.com/fanta-seriea/ I get the error saying that facebook received an empty responde. Am I doing something wrong? The…
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Can't get FB Registration Client side validation to work

I'm following the instructions given on FB Developer, but I just can't get client side verification to work on my registration form. This code block is present in the body of my page:
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how to show blue facebook header on fbml.dialog. (as in stream.publish)

Currently i am showing fbml.dialog like this : FB.ui( { 'method': 'fbml.dialog', 'display': 'dialog', 'fbml': "

this is some fbml markup

", 'width': 575 }, function() { alert(true, 'callback was invoked'); …
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is FBML compliant with HTML standards?

this funny thing called FBML http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fbml/ I'm just wondering is it true that any web page that uses FBML automatically disqualifies themselves as a 100% standard-compliant webpage?
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Detect Like with Facebook JavaScript API + iFrame

Building an app with the Facebook JavaScript API that will embedded into a page using the new iframe method. I want to detect if they have liked the current page. Usually I would use print_r($_REQUEST) in PHP but that doesn't seem to work when using…
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Facebook fb-login not redirecting back

I want to authenticate the user using facebook login credentials. Everything works, except for the fact that it does not redirect to the redirect_uri specified which I require to capture the signed_request. Any help is hugely appreciated. Below is…
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Scrolling Facebook Canvas

I'm building a Facebook app. Facebook canvas type is FBML, then I put the fb:iframe inside the index page, load my ajax engine inside of that iframe, and after that, all content is updated trhough ajax. Sometimes the content pages can be long and…
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Is there a way to access an iframe's window object from the canvas in FBJS? (facebook)

From the facebook canvas, I need to be able to access an iframe window. Normally you could do this with window.frames, but FJBS doesn't seem to allow access to the window object. Has anyone figured out how to access window objects?
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Is there a way to reload the page after is clicked?

I'm wondering about this: I have a simple facebook-connect app that will only show certain content after you login and liked a certain page. It works (huzzah!) but I want to make it more user friendly by making it refresh automatically after you…
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Using jQuery to select custom fbml-like tags

FBML is using tags like , etc.. How are they selecting these? I've tried $('fb') and $('fb:like'), both return an empty object... does anyone know how this can be done for and ?
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