Render 'like' button after ajax call

Question

there were a few question similar to mine on the stack but none that answered my question, so...

An ajax call returns the standard html code for creating the like button

Answer 1

You have to call FB.XFBML.parse(); after the ajax call.

Documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.XFBML.parse/

Edit: now I see that you're trying to load content into $('#thequestion'). .load takes a callback that runs after the request completes. You should do something like:

$('#thequestion').load('/my/url', { my: 'params' }, function() {
    FB.XFBML.parse();
});

Documentation: http://api.jquery.com/load/