LinkedIn follow company button showing blank page

Asked 3/7, 2012 at 13:59 Answered 23/5, 2016 at 20:23

I copied the code from this link by giving company name and clicking the Get Code button. It generated the code given below

<script src="//platform.linkedin.com/in.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="IN/FollowCompany" data-id="361557" data-counter="right"></script>

I pasted this code in tag of a html file and then run the html file in Chrome, Firefox and IE, but all browser gave a blank page as output.

Then I paste those script n the tag but the output remains same.

How should I create the html file, so that it could generate the inFollow button.

Please help me.

Kowalski answered 3/7, 2012 at 13:59 Comment(5)

can you view the source of in.js file in your html – Marvelous 3/7, 2012 at 14:13

@refhat in.js is not my script file. Its the linkedin file. you can see the source code by selecting the complete url associated with it and paste it in address bar of any browser. Just use the url platform.linkedin.com/in.js – Kowalski 3/7, 2012 at 14:16

I think problem is on Linkedin side. I had this script for almost one year, and it worked. Few days ago I saw that button is oppening about:blank page. – Undertrump 4/12, 2017 at 13:49

Problem can be reproduced even on generator page. – Undertrump 4/12, 2017 at 14:1

@AndrewLuca Just so you know, you only need to type your message once... Not on every post on the page. – Kellar 30/4, 2018 at 14:57

Well it appears that you are just invoking the JavaScript. You must place the JavaScript into an HTML Document and then have an element that corresponds with that script.

Remember you also have to have a full structured HTML Document before you can just place Script tags into it, you need html, body, head, tags, etc.

Try creating an HTML Document and placing this within the .html file.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<script src="//platform.linkedin.com/in.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="IN/FollowCompany" data-id="361557" data-counter="right"></script>

</body>
</html>

Tips to remember:

A lot of scripts require an element to correspond with.
You may either place the script within the script tags in the body tags or the head tags, depending on if you may or may not be selecting an element on the page.
Each HTML document requires the correct mark-up before a browser can render it.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: Just upload it to a server, once you do that, it will work. I cannot explain why though.

Peanuts answered 3/7, 2012 at 14:10 Comment(9)

Did you tried this? Is it working for you? Actually already I have tried this before asking the question but I got the same blank page. – Kowalski 3/7, 2012 at 14:14

@ChandraSekhar: I did try the above, and I uploaded it to a server. And once I ran the document via a browser while it was placed on a server it worked perfectly fine for me. I saw the button and everything. – Peanuts 3/7, 2012 at 14:18

I am running it just through a local file. Then why it is not working? – Kowalski 3/7, 2012 at 14:21

@chandraSekhar: I cannot give you a great explanation regarding why it does not work fully when it is being run locally, but I do know that some scripts do this. – Peanuts 3/7, 2012 at 14:23

Thanks dear its working through server. If you know the reason behind not running locally, please let me know. – Kowalski 3/7, 2012 at 17:26

@ChandraSekhar: You are very welcome! I haven't figured this one out yet. But maybe, just maybe, it could be Server-Side Script driven... Hence it may send Server-Side Requests via AJAX. Whom knows. – Peanuts 10/7, 2012 at 21:55

Aaron I think you are right. I ran it through tomcat server and it works for me. – Kowalski 11/7, 2012 at 3:24

I think problem is on Linkedin side. I had this script for almost one year, and it worked. Few days ago I saw that button is oppening about:blank page. – Undertrump 4/12, 2017 at 13:49

Problem can be reproduced even on generator page. – Undertrump 4/12, 2017 at 14:1

It is not working locally because it is using protocol relative URL. If you change src="//platform.linkedin.com/in.js" to src="https://platform.linkedin.com/in.js" it will work.

Cavell answered 23/5, 2016 at 20:23 Comment(2)

I think problem is on Linkedin side. I had this script for almost one year, and it worked. Few days ago I saw that button is oppening about:blank page. I use it on live site. – Undertrump 4/12, 2017 at 13:50

Problem can be reproduced even on generator page. – Undertrump 4/12, 2017 at 14:1

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