How to update the twitter share button URL with dynamic content?

Question

I initialize the tweet button at the beginning of my app, after user interaction the current window\'s location is updated using HTML5 pushState, but the twitter button is still

Answer 1

I figured this out. Here's how to make this work.

The general idea is:

1. In your HTML set the class of your for the twitter share button to be something other than .twitter-share-button. Also give the a style="display:none;".
2. In your HTML, where you want the twitter share button to appear, create a
   (or ) with a unique id.
3. In your jQuery, when you want to set the data for the twitter share button you will:
   • 'clone()the hidden, mis-named,` tag from step #1
   • On this clone, set the data-url etc... attributes as you'd like
   • Remove the style attribute from the clone (unhide it)
   • Change the class of the clone to twitter-share-button
4. append() this clone to your
   from step 2.
5. Use $.getScript() to load and run Twitter's Javascript. This will convert your cloned into an