Facebook Like button working but not sharing

Question

Im using the XFBML version of the Like button but the "Share it" box with the space to leave a comment doesn't show up after clicking "Recommend". The rest works fine.

Im using this code:

<fb:like href="www.google.cl" width="300" action="recommend" font="lucida grande"></fb:like>

And, in the end of the page

</body>

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script>
  FB.init({appId: '1234567890', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true});
  FB.Event.subscribe('auth.sessionChange', function(response) {
    if (response.session) {
      // A user has logged in, and a new cookie has been saved
    } else {
      // The user has logged out, and the cookie has been cleared
    }
  });
</script>    
</html>

Do you know what is happening? Any advice is warmly received. Thanks

Answer 1

not too long ago I was helping a friend with this and the issue on his end was the absence of meta tags required for url sharing: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share/Specifying_Meta_Tags

(the thumbnail image for the link is optional)

However, I'm not sure if you can combine the Like and Share functionality into one button with just the [x]fbml. you might want to implement a share functionality with onclick on the Like button. in onclick you would run a javascript SDK command using fb.ui with stream.share See the second example on page http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.ui

Meta tags are needed either way.

Let me know if that gets you going in the right direction or if you get stuck again.