Facebook page opens in browser instead of mobile app

Question

I have added social icons on a website and added link of the business page like following:

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pagename/" target="_blank"></a>Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/pagename" target="_blank"></a>Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/channelname" target="_blank">Youtube</a></li>
</ul>

When I click on the twitter and youtube links through mobile device, it opens on the respective application. But facebook opens on it's mobile site m.facebook.com/pagename.

I want to open the facebook link on it's mobile app as well if user clicks the facebook link from mobile device. Kindly, let me know how can I achieve this?

By using fb:// will it work fine in desktop view? I mean will open in web facebook page ? — Liz., Dec 30 '16 at 14:45
Maybe take a look at this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16761568/how-to-open-facebook-app-from-url-only-if-installed — Goombah, Dec 30 '16 at 14:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 30 '16 at 13:58

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Facebooks has a separate mobile url, it is called like this:

http://m.facebook.com/pagename/

answered Dec 30 '16 at 13:58

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when clicked from mobile it opens the mobile url only. But, I want it to open in fb app if is it installed on the device – Liz. Jan 04 '17 at 07:13

Facebook page opens in browser instead of mobile app

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