howto: tweetmeme and facebook share buttons aligned

HELLO WORLD,

A super-fast post here, for those of you who are geeky, blogs/sites, but don’t know too much about html/javascript. I’m writing this as even if the problem is trivial, I googled a bit and couldn’t find any “copy’n'paste” kind of solution, so here you are.

The problem: the tweetmeme and facebook share horizontal buttons are disaligned

“This kinda sucks” you’d think “since they’re the 2 most populare sharing button, why didn’t they make an effort to make them aligned by default?”. Good question. But still, wait to see what the “Google buzz” button looks like! :-O

Anyway, before finding this solution I created a table around the 2 buttons, tried using inline CSS (vertical-align and margin) to get them aligned and none worked. What did work was usign a div tag, just copy’n'paste the following code into your webpage and it should work fine:

<table>

<tbody>

<tr>

<td>

</div>

</td>

<td>

<a name=”fb_share” type=”button_count” href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php”>Share</a><script src=”http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share” type=”text/javascript”></script>

</div>

</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

You can see the result on our forum.

Notes: always get the latest scripts from tweetmeme and facebook. As the buttons change, you may need to play around with the values a bit…

Edit: on this blog we’re currently using the amazing Digg Digg plugin and the wibiya toolbar (we’re still using the 2 buttons on our forum).

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