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Sephr on June 1, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google +1 button for websites

What's with everyone making up tag names and undefined namespaces nowadays? <g:plusone>? A simple <span> with a class or data attribute would suffice.

Encosia on June 2, 2011 [–]

I had the same reaction. Looking into the documentation[0], it turns out that you can also use a div with data- attributes instead, like this:

<div class="g-plusone" data-size="standard" data-count="true"></div>

[0] http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/

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