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Topic-icon Removing background color for FBCLike text area

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Hi support,
Can you instruct how I can remove the background color for the text (Be the first of your friends to like this) next to the like icon?
My site is www.tristantay.com/villacapungv3/

Thanks.
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15 years 2 months ago #8689 by alzander
What color were you looking to use? Unfortunately, Facebook limits the amount of styling that can be done on their widgets. This is to keep Facebook's overall branding intact. There are some minor changes that can sometimes be performed, but most of the 'big' styling possibilities are only in the colorscheme option of dark vs light.

Hopefully this helps explain what you can (and can't) do with the Like button. The button looks good to me on your page, just so you know.
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15 years 2 months ago #8695 by tristantay
Hi
What I hope is to not have any background color at all on the text area, right now there is a black bar. Any workaround?

Thanks
Tristan
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15 years 2 months ago #8699 by alzander
Unfortunately, you can't do that. Facebook used to have a lot more abilities to add custom CSS files to most of their widgets. However, over the last 6 months or so, they've been slowly removing that ability from their widgets because some administrators abused the ability to overwrite the styles of them. Abuse included changing the output so drastically that the button did not 'look' like a Like button, for instance, which could have the effect of tricking a user to clicking it, thinking it had a different functionality.

Right now, the only options are for the Light and Dark colorschemes. We agree, this isn't a great choice, and Facebook has heard a lot of feedback to add back in some options to customize. We'll definitely update our extensions if those options become available.

Sorry for the bad news. We wish it was easier to customize the output as well.
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15 years 2 months ago #8703 by tristantay
Thanks for clearing up the issue. Well at least I know what to say to my client when they ask. Cheers.
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15 years 2 months ago #8712 by alzander
No problem. We do what we can, and wish we could make it more configurable as well. Best of luck to you!
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