Question

I’d like to use a Facebook “Send” button on my site (as described here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/send).

By default, the send button appears on the page as a small button. When the user clicks the Send button, it opens up into a much larger dialog box.

What I’d like is for that much larger dialog box to open automatically when the page loads, as if the user had clicked the Send button.

I’m not asking for anything malicious. I just want the dialog to be open since this will be on my site’s “sharing” page, and the open dialog would look a lot better than the little Send button. I’m not planning on doing falsified “sends” or anything else spammy.

I tried this simplistic bit using jquery, but it doesn’t work…

function expose() {
        $(".fb_button").click();
}

$(document).ready(function() {
        setTimeout(expose, 1000);
});

Answer 1

Aren’t FB social plugins “encapsulated” inside an iframe? if that’s the case you won’t be able to bind an event to the button. And even if it’s not in an iframe, I think Facebook will try to stop you from “forcing” an automated clicks even if your intentions are good