Ask HN: Can you customize the Facebook like button?

1 points by MichaelRihani 14 years ago | 4 comments

I vaguely remember seeing someone hack together variations of the Facebook like button for their website. I'm wondering, can you edit the CSS or other parts of the code to change the size, color, and overall look of the like button? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

jmslau 14 years ago |

Not sure if you are asking whether you can do it according to their policies, or whether you can technically accomplish it. If you are asking the latter, you can whatever you like with the button, then just call the Facebook Graph API (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/) via Javascript when the button is clicked.

Hope that helps.

MichaelRihani 14 years ago | |

Thank you!

bvirkler 14 years ago |

According to the TOS (http://www.facebook.com/brandpermissions/logos.php) you can change the size but nothing else.

"While you may scale the size to suit your needs, you may not modify the Like Button in any other way (such as by changing the design)."

MichaelRihani 14 years ago | |

Great, thanks!