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December 10, 2013 20:36
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Quick jQuery script to tweet the highlighted text on a page.
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| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <p>This is the text. You'll need to make sure jQuery is loaded. When | |
| you highlight some text we use some JavaScript to grab it and update | |
| the tweet button.</p> | |
| <p>The tweet button (copy this <a> link and the next script tag verbatim): | |
| <span id='tweet-span'> | |
| <a href="https://twitter.com/share" id='tweet' | |
| class="twitter-share-button" | |
| data-lang="en" | |
| data-count='none'>Tweet</a> | |
| <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script> | |
| </span></p> | |
| <script> | |
| // this is the part that actually does the work | |
| function tweetSetup(text) { | |
| if (twttr === undefined) { return; } | |
| if (text === undefined) { text = ''; } | |
| var tweet = $('<a>') | |
| .attr('href', "https://twitter.com/share") | |
| .attr('id', "tweet") | |
| .attr('class', "twitter-share-button") | |
| .attr('data-lang', "en") | |
| .attr('data-count', "none") | |
| .attr('data-text', text) | |
| .text('Tweet'); | |
| $(".twitter-share-button").remove(); | |
| $("#tweet-span").prepend(tweet); | |
| twttr.widgets.load(); | |
| } | |
| $('body').mouseup(function(evt) { | |
| evt.preventDefault(); | |
| var t = window.getSelection().toString(); | |
| if (t !== '') { tweetSetup(t) } | |
| }); | |
| </script> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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Awesome, thanks! I'll try it out. I'm thinking this could be great for social reading of online texts. Where would I add a default hashtag to the code? (I don't know JavaScript, other than that it works on GitHub Pages. :) )