Sharing to Facebook doesn't pick up Title, Description etc - html

When I paste in the url of my page on Facebook, it doesn't pick the title etc.
I've got this in the head:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" >
<meta property="og:title" content="Baten 2012">
<meta property="og:type" content="website" >
<meta property="og:image" content="http://www.nygeneration.se/båten/img/fb.jpg">
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.nygeneration.se/båten/"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="Jesus. 2000 ungdomar. EN STÖRT. STOR. BÅT.">
But it doesn't work. Facebook's url debugger says that the url and title aren't declared, but as far as I know they are. What am I missing here? The page in question is here.
Interesting fact by the way is that if I serve the page from the Public folder of my Dropbox it does work.

The problem I've seen is that the sharer.php cache everything really hard so it could be a little bit hard coding as "try/trial and error". I create meta tags from code-behind/serverside and in the end of links for urls and images I add ?v=DATETIME so the result will be like; ../image.jpg?v=20120217120412,.. works like a charm!
the meta tags look good, I do not use the extra xmlns:xx i the html tag, works anyway

You should close all meta tags with />
the <html> also missing.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#"
xmlns:fb="https://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">

at the top of page use
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
instead of
<!DOCTYPE html>

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Removing <body> with a userscript

I'm sorry, but I am not very good with programming. I am trying to fix this irritating bug on my school's website through a userscript. I have tested the RegEx on several pages, at least that works. I need to make the userscript remove the parts I don't want to see. This is a snippet from the source of the website, I have marked what needs to be removed with '//'.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
//<html><head>
//<title>404 Not Found</title>
//</head><body>
//<h1>Not Found</h1>
//<p>The requested URL /get.php was not found on this server.</p>
//</body></html>
<!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" xml:lang="en-gb" lang="en-gb" >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
This is my userscript that does not work. I know it reflects my skills as a programmer, please don't hate.
var REGEX = /<HTML>(.*?)([^\n]*?\n+?)+?<\/BODY><\/HTML>/ig;
document.body.innerHTML=document.body.innerHTML.replace(REGEX, '');
This markup is obviously invalid, but the browser (at least Chrome and Firefox) will merge these two <html> sections together with its best guess. So interacting with document.body is probably not what you want.
Doing something like this will visually fix the issue:
document.querySelector('h1').remove() // remove first h1 "Not Found"
document.querySelector('p').remove() // remove first p "The requested..."

HTML Email - Not rendering correctly for Old Email Clients

I have at the start of the HTML Template:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org
/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=300, initial-scale=1.0, target-densitydpi=device-dpi">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" /> <!-- disable auto telephone linking in iOS -->
<head>....
However, when it comes to old email clients, my HTML doesnt render at all, and is blank... I have tested this on litmus.
Is there something that I need to add or remove from above so that it also renders in the old browsers as well.
Thanks
Your meta tags should be inside the <head>.
What you have there otherwise looks fine, so it may have something to do with the rest of your document. I would recommend starting with Sean Powell's email boilerplate and bringing some of your code over.
Failing that, have you forgotten to close any elements such as tables/rows/cells?
Which email clients is it broken in?

What HTML version is this html

What html version is code snippet below?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="Generator" content="some info here ..." />
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1" />
Lets go line by line
<!DOCTYPE html> - HTML5 Doctype
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> - Refer here
<head> - Document head element
<meta name="Generator" content="some info here ..." /> Description of the program you used to create the HTML document
<meta charset="utf-8" /> - Document Character Encoding, Good read
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1" /> Read Here And Here
I would've certainly wrote a big fat description for each but realized that these were already asked in different questions, so thought to link them instead of repeating the same thing here again.
The code snippet is mostly the start of an HTML5 document in XHTML (XML) serialization, sometimes confusingly called XHTML5.
It is not a conforming document, however; the current HTML5 CR does not allow the attribute http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" (on rather formal grounds, but still).
The doctype belongs to HTML5 Doctype definition.
So the rest of the document should be bases on HTML5

How to successfully implement og:image for the LinkedIn

THE PROBLEM:
I am trying, without much success, to implement open graph image on site: http://www.guarenty-group.com/cz/
The homepage is completeply bypassing the og:image tag, where internal pages are reading all images from the site and place og:image as the last option.
Other social networks are working fine on both internal pages and homepage.
THE CONFIGURATION:
I have no share buttons or alike, all I want is to be able to share the link via my profile.
The image is well over 300x300px: http://guarenty-group.com/img/gg_seal.png
Here is how my head tag looks like:
<!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>Guarenty Group : Pojištění pro nájemce a pronajímatelé</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="Guarenty Group pojišťuje příjem z nájmu pronajímatelům, kauci nájemcům - aby nemuseli platit velkou částku v hotovostí předem - a dále nájemcům pojišťuje příjmy, aby měli na nájem při nemoci, úrazu či nezaměstnání." />
<meta name="image_src" content="http://guarenty-group.com/img/gg_seal.png" />
<meta name="image_url" content="http://guarenty-group.com/img/gg_seal.png" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Pojištění pro nájemce a pronajímatelé" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://guarenty-group.com/cz/" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://guarenty-group.com/img/gg_seal.png" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Guarenty Group pojišťuje příjem z nájmu pronajímatelům, kauci nájemcům - aby nemuseli platit velkou částku v hotovostí předem - a dále nájemcům pojišťuje příjmy, aby měli na nájem při nemoci, úrazu či nezaměstnání [...]" />
...
</head>
THE TESTING RESULTS:
In order to trick the cache i have tested the site with http://www.guarenty-group.com/cz/?try=N, where I have changed the N every time. The strange thing is that images found for different value of N is different. Sometimes there is no image, sometimes there is 1, 2 or 3 images, but each time there is a different set of images.
But, in any case I could not find the image specified in the og:graph!
MY QUESTIONS:
https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/setting-display-tags-shares is saying one thing, and the personnel on the support forum is saying "over 300" Does anyone know What is the official minimum dimension of the image (both w and h)?
Can an image be too large?
Should I use the xmlns, should I not use xmlns or it doesn't matter?
What are the maximum (and minimum) lengths for og:title and og:description tags?
Any other suggestion is of course welcomed :)
Thanks in advance, cheers~
This answer I found on LinkedIn forums might be of help to you:
Guys, I've spent a whole day trying different things. What worked for
me is using the mata [sic] tags as following:
<meta prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" property="og:title" content="{Your content}" />
<meta prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" property="og:type" content="{Your content}" />
<meta prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" property="og:image" content="{Your content}" />
<meta prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#" property="og:url" content="{Your content}" />
Just try to add prefix to every tag (not to html tag), then re-sign in
with your LI account to clear the cache...
Post your results.
I found this simple fix which worked for me after lots of complicated solutions which didn't work:
LinkedIn
The only way to “clear” the sharing preview cache for LinkedIn is to trick LinkedIn into thinking your page is a different (and new) page.
This is done by adding a made-up parameter to the link. It doesn’t affect your webpage, but it does force the metadata to be re-fetched.
Example:
Original link: //beantin.se/consultant-resume
"New" link: //beantin.se/consultant-resume?1
I was having the same issue last night. Spent hours researching solutions and I tried the solutions recommended by others in this post but to no avail. Finally I contacted LinkedIn about this issue and they responded right away. Their development team has implemented a new tool called "Post Inspector", which allows you to optimize content sharing. Literally, in just minutes this actually worked.
All you have to do is type in your URL and they do all the busy work i.e. verifying correct code of properties such as image, author, title, description, publication date etc. Not only do they verify, they also tell you what code to include, what is missing, and how to fix it.
Here is the website to use Post Inspector:
https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/
LinkedIn is also caching previews. If OpenGraph image was incorrectly cached at some point before, try defeating the cache with a query parameter on a shared link, e.g. https://your-website.com/?1.
Just a little late lol,
But I came across this exact issue, figured out that linkedIn was pulling the meta tags from the final landing page.
My website that i was trying to link to had an instant redirect, adding the og tags to the page where it was redirected to fixed the issue.
Make sure your og: tags are part of the head tag.
I ran into this recently, spent a huge amount of time working on it with all the types of solutions above. I was working with someone else's HTML and finally figured out that the html was simply missing the head tag, while it did have the closing tag for head.
Linked In is apparently not scanning page text for the og tags, but processing the page dom, and if the dom objects aren't properly coded, they won't process. If you have issues with unmatched tags or unclosed tags, this could be your issue if everything else is not working.
I did not need to add prefix to the meta tags or add og image height and width tags once the html was fixed. Linked In processed it fine once the html was fixed.
If you don’t want to add a fake query string parameter to your LinkedIn URLs—as suggested in e.g., #Kym's answer—a simple solution is just to sign out and then sign back in.
For me solution was to put all the <meta> tags (without prefix) inside <head> tag.
For other social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Google you don't even need to have <head> tag. (because it it optional in HTML5 specs)
PS. There is a new nice way for testing <meta> tags on your website: https://metatags.io/
After researching for a day, I found that meta tag with attribute property should be used instead of name.
<!doctype html>
<html prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#">
<head>
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
...
Ref: https://ogp.me/
In my case I did exactly this and it worked fine (on my page of course).
Put these four lines in the head:
<title> aanalytics </title>
<meta data-react-helmet="true" property="og:image" content="/photos/s5.jpg">
<meta data-react-helmet="true" property="og:type" content="website">
<meta data-react-helmet="true" property="og:url" content="https://www.aanalytics.de">
BUT, pay attention that if you have more than one head in your page, these lines need to be inserted in the first head otherwise it will not work.
I also had prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns#” in the html
I got it finally working by adding the full image path:
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="https://hasan.life/images/preview.png">
This is worked for me.
Somehow this problem happens if you don't set your open graph tags properly.
Instead of this:
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="{content}" />
Try this:
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="{content}" />
<meta property="og:image:secure_url" content="{content}" />
<meta property="og:image:width" content="640" />
<meta property="og:image:height" content="442" />
I've tried for more than half an hour and I found this one which worked 100% correctly
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a521928/making-your-website-shareable-on-linkedin?lang=en
• You can also check your Open graph credentials on https://www.opengraph.xyz/
<meta name="title" property="og:title" content="Enter your title here">
<meta property="og:type" content="Enter any tyoe like Article or Website">
<meta name="description" property="og:description" content="Enter description here">
<meta name="image" property="og:image" content="Enter image URL here">
<meta property='og:url' content='Enter website URL here'/>

Facebook Sharing won't use specified image & link

I'm using Facebooks' Open Graph protocol :
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Here's code for a test page. My understanding is that when someone "likes" this, the image icon that placed in the post on their
page should be the one specified in og:image, and the linkable url in the post should be the one specified in og:url.
In reality, it seems to truncate the URL to the domain, and instead of using the image provided it picks one seemingly at random (my guess is it's just taking the first image it sees from a scan or specified elsewhere in the code).
Am I doing anything obviously wrong here?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>My Site</title>
<meta property="og:title" content="My Site Title" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.mysite.org/videos/index/16922653" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/104/367/104367616_200.jpg" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="My Site" />
<meta property="og:app_id" content="5555555555" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="image_src" href="http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/104/367/104367616_200.jpg" />
</head>
<body>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
<fb:like href="http://www.mysite.org/videos/index/16922653" show_faces="false" width="450" />
</body>
</html>
Update: #echese
Good suggestion. Ran it, got this feedback from the "debug" section:
Data Source "website" extracted from <meta property="og:type" />
Data Source "My Site Title" extracted from <meta property="og:title" />
Data Source "http://www.mysite.org/videos/index/16922653" extracted from <meta property="og:url" />
Data Source Extracted 1 values from <meta property="og:image" />: http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/104/367/104367616_200.jpg
Data Source "My Site" extracted from <meta property="og:site_name" />
Looks like it understands the image url. It suggested some iframe code which I tried but still no dice, I don't get the image I specify.
Try running the URL Linter to see if you can find any errors on your pages.
hmm maybe (maaaaaaybe) it's because you dont have the og namespace on the html tag..
or.. maybe because the image's url is on a different domain than your page?
good luck