How to add a Facebook “Like” button to an AJAX driven page

Question

I have trawled the net and Stack Overflow and have not found an adequate answer to this question. Before I start the trial and error process of finding my own solution, I th

Answer 1

This is how I handled this situation when I ran into it - seems to work well.

// Set Facebook Like Button with jQuery
setFBLikeButtons = function (container,url,send,layout,width,show_faces,font) {
  // Set Default Args
  if(!send) { send = "false"; }
  if(!layout) { layout = "button_count"; }
  if(!width) { width = "100"; }
  if(!show_faces) { show_faces = "false"; }
  if(!font) { font = "arial"; }

  $(container).empty(); // Remove current like button
  $(container).html('');
  FB.XFBML.parse(); // This is the magical syrup
}