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
<body>
The tweet button:
<span id='tweet-span'>
<a href="https://twitter.com/share" id='tweet'
class="twitter-share-button"
data-lang="en"
data-count='none'>Tweet</a>
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
</span>
<div>
<input type="button" onclick="tweetSetup('http://www.google.com','MyGoogle')" value="TestTwitter" />
</div>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
function tweetSetup(dynamicurl,dynamictext) {
$(".twitter-share-button").remove();
var tweet = $('<a>')
.attr('href', "https://twitter.com/share")
.attr('id', "tweet")
.attr('class', "twitter-share-button")
.attr('data-lang', "en")
.attr('data-count', "none")
.text('Tweet');
$("#tweet-span").prepend(tweet);
tweet.attr('data-text', dynamictext);//add dynamic title if need
tweet.attr('data-url', dynamicurl);
twttr.widgets.load();
}
</script>
</body>
twttr.widgets.load();
From Twitter's Dev Docs.
I had success using the new Twitter feature that reloads the share url.
function updateTwitterValues(share_url, title) {
// clear out the <a> tag that's currently there...probably don't really need this since you're replacing whatever is in there already.
$(container_div_name).html(' ');
$(container_div_name).html('<a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="' + share_url +'" data-size="large" data-text="' + title + '" data-count="none">Tweet</a>');
twttr.widgets.load();
}
My initial HTML just has a container for the share link, like this:
<div id="twitter-share-section"></div>
Any time I get new data from an ajax call I just call updateTwitterValues() and pass along the new info. More info here https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/5642
I figured this out. Here's how to make this work.
The general idea is:
class
of your <a>
for the twitter share button to be something other than .twitter-share-button
. Also give the <a>
a style="display:none;"
.<div>
(or <span>
) with a unique id
.the hidden, mis-named,
` tag from step #1data-url
etc... attributes as you'd likestyle
attribute from the clone (unhide it)class
of the clone to twitter-share-button
append()
this clone to your <div>
from step 2.$.getScript()
to load and run Twitter's Javascript. This will convert your cloned <a>
into an <iframe>
with all the right goop.Here's my HTML (in Jade):
a.twitter-share-button-template(style="display:none;", href='https://twitter.com/share=', data-lang='en',
data-url='http://urlthatwillbe_dynamically_replaced',
data-via='ckindel', data-text='Check this out!',
data-counturl='http://counturlthatwillbe_dynamically_replaced') Share with Twitter
#twitter-share-button-div
Then in your client-side .js:
// the twitter share button does not natively support being dynamically
// updated after the page loads. We want to give it a unique (social_id)
// link whenver this modal is shown. We engage in some jQuery fun here to
// clone a 'hidden' twitter share button and then force the Twitter
// Javascript to load.
// remove any previous clone
$('#twitter-share-button-div').empty()
// create a clone of the twitter share button template
var clone = $('.twitter-share-button-template').clone()
// fix up our clone
clone.removeAttr("style"); // unhide the clone
clone.attr("data-url", someDynamicUrl);
clone.attr("data-counturl", someDynamicCountUrl);
clone.attr("class", "twitter-share-button");
// copy cloned button into div that we can clear later
$('#twitter-share-button-div').append(clone);
// reload twitter scripts to force them to run, converting a to iframe
$.getScript("http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js");
I got the main clues for this solution from here: http://tumblr.christophercamps.com/post/4072517874/dynamic-tweet-button-text-using-jquery