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14 years 10 months ago #11688 by Puckmeister
Hi there, i just bought your extension and tried t syle the comments box on the pages with css. I used the CommentBox function from Joomseller before, where the cssstyling works. Now i need a bigger solution and yours seems to be very good with all the plugins and extensions!
Is ist possible to style the box with css through changing the url in jfbcsystem.php ?
I really need this feature, because i have an img-background, sand i have no transparent commentbox. Looks weird with the white square background on my img.

I found these resources on it:
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fbml/comments/
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fbml/comments_(XFBML)/

Best regards, Chris
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14 years 10 months ago #11693 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Style Commentbox with CSS
Unfortunately, in March, Facebook updated their comment box quite a bit. In the process, they removed the ability to style the box as they felt some people were completely removing all branding and 'looks' from it that made it seem related to Facebook in anyway.

Both of the links you provide, if you look at the top, specifically say "Legacy FBML", and those boxes use the old 'XID' parameter to identify each comment box, instead of the URL of the page you want the comments attached to, as in the new comment box that Facebook supports. Facebook does allow limited support of some of the old features from the old comment box if you continue using it on your site, but in the past when they've done this, they've very randomly, and all-of-a-sudden, would remove the ability completely. Because of this, in April, with our 3.2 release, we upgraded completely to the new comment box. We still have some support for the old box for the users of JFBConnect that had a lot of comments before the 3.2 upgrade, but if you weren't using our box, they migration options we have won't work for you. They do have the 'light' and 'dark' colorschemes, which we'll agree aren't fully-featured solutions, but it's the most flexibility that Facebook gives with the new commenting system.

I do hope this helps explain everything, and the short of it is that Facebook no longer allows styling of the comment box. We're shooting, for the 4.1 release, to have some big improvements and enhanced functionality for commenting features that may allow some styling, but we don't have a timeline or more information we can give about that for now.

Alex
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14 years 10 months ago #11716 by Puckmeister
ok, understand it. I have to live with the Facebook Policy until they let me change it again.
Would be great to hear from you, when they open the settings again to edit these things. i don't want to style everything, a simple transparent background would be enough. i hope they will change their policies again ;).
best regards and thx for the long answer, chris
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14 years 10 months ago #11727 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Style Commentbox with CSS
No problem for the long answer. We wish we could do more. Again, we do have some ideas on how to really power up comment integration in a future release, but it's still in the planning phases, and when we ultimately try to implement it, may run into some issues that prevent us from following through. We do hear your pain though and agree that more customization would be great.

Alex
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