Question

I am using old Facebook sharer with a button that is a link to facebook.com/sharer.php?u=LINK on my home page, because there is a lot of content that need to have some share button, but like buttons make it very slow.

So, now i made my own design of fb sharer, so when I click on share button, ajax loads a box with iframe to fb sharer.

Now I am interested if I can now when a “Share Link” button is clicked, or “Cancel” button, so that I can automatically close my box (like the original popup window is closed when those buttons are clicked)?

Answer 1

As it states in the documentation of the Share:

The Share button has been deprecated in favor of the Like button, and
will no longer be supported. Please use the Like button whenever
possible to drive maximum traffic to your apps.

Since it’s no longer supported, there are drawbacks of using it.
With the Like button you can simply subscribe to the like event:

FB.Event.subscribe("edge.create",
    function(response) {
        alert("You liked the URL: " + response);
    }
);

I don’t think that there’s a way to know that with the old share.