How to make a button perform a Facebook like action?

Asked Oct 26 '15 at 16:08

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I know that Facebook provides some code to add one of their like buttons to webpages, but what I need to do is create a custom button which does the same thing. So for example:

<input type="button" value="Like" id="fb-like"/>

I would like that button to send an action to like the website because I can apply custom styling to it which looks a lot better than FB's own bright blue buttons.

Is this possible? I can't find the code to make a custom like button work.

asked Oct 26 '15 at 16:08

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Have you ever heard about `onclick` event and Javascript ? – Jean-Baptiste Yunès Oct 26 '15 at 16:21
@Jean-BaptisteYunès Yep, I can do that with JQuery. Where is the code to get it to perform a like? On facebook's site it says I have to include their javascript code and html which just puts a blue button on the page. – volume one Oct 26 '15 at 18:55
I'm pretty sure that you'll find it on the web with "fb like button" – Jean-Baptiste Yunès Oct 26 '15 at 19:13
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But beware http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9493988/how-to-trigger-facebook-like-button-from-custom-button – Jean-Baptiste Yunès Oct 26 '15 at 19:15
Damn it can't be done – volume one Oct 26 '15 at 22:47

How to make a button perform a Facebook like action?

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