facebook application: how to put html code like 'a href' inside news feed content? (After the newest api update)

Answer 1

I believe this is specified by the meta tags of the page being linked to. For more information, check out http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share/Specifying_Meta_Tags

Basically, when the user posts a link to an outside site, facebook fetches that page, and looks at certain meta tags to come up with a preview of the site, including some text and a small image, if these are specified by the linked site.

So, I think you should be able to just include your href tags in your meta description, and you should be all set. I haven't tried this with links, but that is definitely how you get the description and image to show up.

Answer 2

Use the properties property of the stream attachment object. This takes a dictionary of key/value pairs, where the values can themselves be an object consisting of text and href properties. E.g. attach something like the following onto your stream attachment object in JavaScript:

var properties = {
    "Rating" : {
        "text" : "1797 points",
        "href":"http://apps.facebook.com/yourappurl/"
        },
    "Leaderboard position":{
        "text":"192nd",
        "href":"http://apps.facebook.com/yourappurl/"
    }
}

Will display the text "Rating: 1797 points" and "Leaderboard position : 192nd" on separate lines, with the "Rating" and Leaderboard position" text in light grey and the "1792 points" and "192nd" both as blue hyperlinks.

There are character of 50 characters max for the "key" part (i.e. the "Leaderboard position" segment) and 70 characters for the "value" part.