Add Floating Twitter Button To Blogger
- Go To Blogger > Design
- Choose a HTML/JavaScript widget
- Paste the following code inside it,
<style>/*-------MBT Floating Counters------------*/#floatdiv {
position:absolute;
width:94px;
height:100px;
top:0;
left:0;
z-index:100
}
#mbtsidebar {
border:0px solid #ddd;
padding-left:0px;
position:relative;
margin:0 0 0 5px;
}</style>
<div id="floatdiv">
<div id="mbtsidebar">
<table cellpadding="1px" cellspacing="0"><tr>
<td style="border-bottom: 0px solid #E8E8E8; padding:5px 0 0px 0;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" expr:data-url='data:post.url' expr:data-text='data:post.title' data-count="vertical" data-via="nsciom">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td style="border-bottom: 0px solid #E8E8E8; padding:0px 0 0px 0;"><p style=" font-size:10px; text-align:center; color:#ddd;"><a style="color:#ddd;" href="http://www.MyBloggerTricks.com" target="_blank">Widgets</a></p>
</td>
</tr></table>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
// JavaScript Document
<!--
/* Script by: www.jtricks.com
* Version: 20071017
* Latest version:
* www.jtricks.com/javascript/navigation/floating.html
*/
var floatingMenuId = 'floatdiv';
var floatingMenu =
{
targetX: 0,
targetY: 100,hasInner: typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number',
hasElement: typeof(document.documentElement) == 'object'
&& typeof(document.documentElement.clientWidth) == 'number',menu:
document.getElementById
? document.getElementById(floatingMenuId)
: document.all
? document.all[floatingMenuId]
: document.layers[floatingMenuId]
};floatingMenu.move = function ()
{
floatingMenu.menu.style.left = floatingMenu.nextX + 'px';
floatingMenu.menu.style.top = floatingMenu.nextY + 'px';
}floatingMenu.computeShifts = function ()
{
var de = document.documentElement;floatingMenu.shiftX =
floatingMenu.hasInner
? pageXOffset
: floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.scrollLeft
: document.body.scrollLeft;
if (floatingMenu.targetX < 0)
{
floatingMenu.shiftX +=
floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.clientWidth
: document.body.clientWidth;
}floatingMenu.shiftY =
floatingMenu.hasInner
? pageYOffset
: floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.scrollTop
: document.body.scrollTop;
if (floatingMenu.targetY < 0)
{
if (floatingMenu.hasElement && floatingMenu.hasInner)
{
// Handle Opera 8 problems
floatingMenu.shiftY +=
de.clientHeight > window.innerHeight
? window.innerHeight
: de.clientHeight
}
else
{
floatingMenu.shiftY +=
floatingMenu.hasElement
? de.clientHeight
: document.body.clientHeight;
}
}
}floatingMenu.calculateCornerX = function()
{
if (floatingMenu.targetX != 'center')
return floatingMenu.shiftX + floatingMenu.targetX;var width = parseInt(floatingMenu.menu.offsetWidth);var cornerX =
floatingMenu.hasElement
? (floatingMenu.hasInner
? pageXOffset
: document.documentElement.scrollLeft) +
(document.documentElement.clientWidth - width)/2
: document.body.scrollLeft +
(document.body.clientWidth - width)/2;
return cornerX;
};floatingMenu.calculateCornerY = function()
{
if (floatingMenu.targetY != 'center')
return floatingMenu.shiftY + floatingMenu.targetY;var height = parseInt(floatingMenu.menu.offsetHeight);// Handle Opera 8 problems
var clientHeight =
floatingMenu.hasElement && floatingMenu.hasInner
&& document.documentElement.clientHeight
> window.innerHeight
? window.innerHeight
: document.documentElement.clientHeightvar cornerY =
floatingMenu.hasElement
? (floatingMenu.hasInner
? pageYOffset
: document.documentElement.scrollTop) +
(clientHeight - height)/2
: document.body.scrollTop +
(document.body.clientHeight - height)/2;
return cornerY;
};floatingMenu.doFloat = function()
{
// Check if reference to menu was lost due
// to ajax manipuations
if (!floatingMenu.menu)
{
menu = document.getElementById
? document.getElementById(floatingMenuId)
: document.all
? document.all[floatingMenuId]
: document.layers[floatingMenuId];initSecondary();
}var stepX, stepY;floatingMenu.computeShifts();var cornerX = floatingMenu.calculateCornerX();var stepX = (cornerX - floatingMenu.nextX) * .07;
if (Math.abs(stepX) < .5)
{
stepX = cornerX - floatingMenu.nextX;
}var cornerY = floatingMenu.calculateCornerY();var stepY = (cornerY - floatingMenu.nextY) * .07;
if (Math.abs(stepY) < .5)
{
stepY = cornerY - floatingMenu.nextY;
}if (Math.abs(stepX) > 0 ||
Math.abs(stepY) > 0)
{
floatingMenu.nextX += stepX;
floatingMenu.nextY += stepY;
floatingMenu.move();
}setTimeout('floatingMenu.doFloat()', 20);
};// addEvent designed by Aaron Moore
floatingMenu.addEvent = function(element, listener, handler)
{
if(typeof element[listener] != 'function' ||
typeof element[listener + '_num'] == 'undefined')
{
element[listener + '_num'] = 0;
if (typeof element[listener] == 'function')
{
element[listener + 0] = element[listener];
element[listener + '_num']++;
}
element[listener] = function(e)
{
var r = true;
e = (e) ? e : window.event;
for(var i = element[listener + '_num'] -1; i >= 0; i--)
{
if(element[listener + i](e) == false)
r = false;
}
return r;
}
}//if handler is not already stored, assign it
for(var i = 0; i < element[listener + '_num']; i++)
if(element[listener + i] == handler)
return;
element[listener + element[listener + '_num']] = handler;
element[listener + '_num']++;
};floatingMenu.init = function()
{
floatingMenu.initSecondary();
floatingMenu.doFloat();
};// Some browsers init scrollbars only after
// full document load.
floatingMenu.initSecondary = function()
{
floatingMenu.computeShifts();
floatingMenu.nextX = floatingMenu.calculateCornerX();
floatingMenu.nextY = floatingMenu.calculateCornerY();
floatingMenu.move();
}if (document.layers)
floatingMenu.addEvent(window, 'onload', floatingMenu.init);
else
{
floatingMenu.init();
floatingMenu.addEvent(window, 'onload',
floatingMenu.initSecondary);
}//--></script>
Simply replace nsciom with your twitter username. The above code will display a vertical count as shown below:
If you want a horizontal count or no count at all then replace vertical with horizontal or none
4. Hit save and you are done!
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