Loading Facebook fb:profile-pic via AJAX in Facebook Connect site

Question

After a page loads, I\'m making an AJAX request to pull down an HTML chunk that contains tags representing a Facebook user profile picture. I append the result to a point in t

Answer 1

First attempt

Not sure if this helps a lot, but here's an article on Ajax + FBML: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/FBJS#Creating_FBML_Elements

In particular, perhaps you can use the setInnerFBML() method

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Follow up

So I think the init function parses the fbml. So the obvious question is how do you get facebook's javascript library to re-parse the fbml (or just parse the new fbml) if you insert fbml after init.

It looks like this thread may help: http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=22245

Here's what appears to be the relevant code although there is more context at the forum:

if ( FB.XFBML.Host.parseDomTree )
  setTimeout( FB.XFBML.Host.parseDomTree, 0 );