Question

Just today I noticed on our WordPress blog that the Facebook iframe is showing up as a blank, bordered box in the middle of my page.

The problem is that when Facebook’s JS injects the content, it ends up with a div:

<div id="fb-root" class=" fb_reset">
    <div style="position: absolute; top: -2000px;">
        ...iframes here...
    </div>
</div>

That “top: -2000px” is not enough to get it off of the visible screen, so it’s stuck in the middle of my page.

Is there some way to fix this? I can do something hacky like hide the #fb-root element or shove it way off the screen. That’s the one div that’s actually in my code — the rest, including the offending style attribute, are injected by FB’s code.

My code just looks like:

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
                      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
                      if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
                      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
                      js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
                      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>
<div class="fb-like" data-href="(actual URL here)" data-send="false"
        data-layout="button_count" data-width="150" data-show-faces="false"></div> 

Answer 1

Looks like Facebook fixed the bug, because the problem has disappeared.