Facebook 'Feed' dialog 'name' link not working

Question

Here is my working code that successfully displays the Facebook 'Feed' dialog in a new window:

      <a class="fbShareToWall" 
        onClick='window.open("https://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=103528099783xxx" 
        + "&link=http://www.thesite.com"
        + "&name=Please%20respond%20to%20the%20link"
        + "&caption=Just%20work"
        + "&description=Comeon%20work"
        + "&redirect_uri=http://www.thesite.com");'">Share on Facebook</a>

This successfully displays the Feed dialog in a new window.

Notice the '&name' parameter in the code above -- on the Feed dialog it displays as: Please respond to the link.

BUT if you click on it -- it does nothing, as if it's not a link. But it is, in fact, a link.

The 'Please respond to the link' looks like a link -- it is in a bold font and the letters are blue, while the other params -- the 'caption' param which displays on the Feed dialog as 'Just Work', and the 'description' param which displays as 'Comeon work' -- those are not in a bold font nor are they in blue color. Just regular text, those two params.

So with my Feed dialog box open, I right-clicked on the Please respond to the link and selected 'Open link in a new window' and Firefox opens a new browser and the URL bar has the http://www.thesite.com which, as you notice, is how I set my &link parameter in the above code. In other words -- Firefox has no problem navigating with the URL connected to my &name parameter.

Next, I checked and made sure Firefox was not blocking popups. It wasn't.

I don't undersand why my "Please respond to the link" feed dialog &name parameter:

looks like a clickable link on the Feed Dialog box
and upon being right-clicked, it can be opened in a new browser -- and navigates to the &link parameter successfully
and yet does NOT do anything if you click on Please respond to the link on the Feed dialog.

Am I missing something in my Feed dialog code above?

What is the purpose of the &name parameter on that Feed dialog box?

Or what's the point of having the &link and &name paramaters appear to be a link on the Feed dialog but then NOT work when clicked on?

Nitzan Tomer Nitzan Tomer · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-20T17:38:13

This save behavior exists when using the javascript sdk to publish, and I think that it's intended by facebook.

What you see in that dialog is only a preview of how it will look like when posted, and as a preview it's probably not supposed to act as the real thing. This is probably the behavior so that the user will finish the publishing process with out being redirect to another page (same or different window/tab) by clicking on the items in the preview.

Facebook 'Feed' dialog 'name' link not working

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