Facebook Like button shows blank, solution
Wednesday, March 16 2011 @ 04:32 PM CET
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Invisible button
The "EnkelAdress on Facebook" button displayed just fine for a couple of days and then suddenly it showed up blank, no matter how many times trying to copy the code provided by Facebook. After quite some time digging deep in the information jungle we found the solution.
Root is null or not an object
Was the error reported by IE8, while many users had the problem only in IE, that was not the case for us, it was fully reproduceable in Google Chrome.
The solution
It's easier than you might think, but it is not obvious or understandable considering the same code worked just fine a couple of days ago
<div id="fb-root">(paste facebook code here)</div>
Not for IFrame
Note that this method won't work with the IFrame version of the facebook button, but most people reporting this exact problem use the XFBML version.
- And there it is, simply wrap the facebook code inside a div with id "fb-root".