Add an FBML Box to Your Fan Page Wall

Seen custom FBML boxes on the left side of Facebook Fan page walls? It’s easy to do yourself, but just as a warning, Facebook is planning to remove the boxes tab and left-column boxes in “early 2010.”

When you create the FBML box that you wish to publish on your page’s wall, remember to keep the dimensions appropriate for the space. If you create a box that is too wide, you will mess with the formatting. You have 200 pixels of width, and plenty of height. You can move the wall box anywhere below the Fans box (it can not sit directly under your profile photo).

So, here are step-by-step instructions for adding the wall box:

1) Go to “Edit my page” and find the existing FBML box that you wish to send to your wall.

2) Click on “Application settings” and choose to Add the Box option.

3) Go back to the Page and click the arrows the the right of your wall tabs. Go to the Boxes tab.

4) Find the FBML box you just added. Click on the editing pencil in the upper right hand corner and choose “Move to Wall tab”

Your FBML box should appear on the left side of your page.

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  • http://www.primakomp.pl brainac

    I can’t make my own app to appear in box, I can’t get the option in settings. Is it somehow possible?

    I would like to have my product displayed dynamically. I got it on fanpage tab via my app, but can do nothing to display it in box on left side. Any hints?

    • http://www.hyperarts.com timware

      Facebook intends to soon eliminate boxes altogether, but I believe they’ve already disabled creating new sidebar boxes.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VKWRY6V6YPFM3NJVHLD25AVG3U Ashleigh Herst

        I tried to do this manually and my code messed up. Luckily I used my reliable online backup services to back up my data

    • http://landed.at landed

      It looks like its no longer possible to add boxes !

      I tried to make absolute position hack but that doesn’t work.

      • http://www.hyperarts.com timware

        Boxes are long gone. Bye bye :)

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VKWRY6V6YPFM3NJVHLD25AVG3U Ashleigh Herst

          is online backup safe

          Yeah, i couldn’t decipher how to use the absolute position code as well

  • Jean-Pierre

    Yes Facebook has already disabled this option :(

  • http://.,,,, arun

    but i can see that this option is working in most of ther forums of facebook..

    • http://landed.at landed

      Its so bad how they [facebook] change standards so fast and as a developer its the last place I go to find up to date info !

  • Raquel

    How do you add FBML box on the wall tab [top] in facebook? I had fbml tab on left but I don’t find an option to move the tab on the wall. Please help.

    • http://www.hyperarts.com/blog timware

      Boxes are long gone, Raquel.

  • Raquel

    Oh I see…the one that I saw in facebook was yours. You are selling those codes. I am interested the multiple tab but I don’t enough budget yet.

    What I did for the last 24 hours was putting up all together the page and land to a welcome page. Here is the link. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Raquel-Mitchell/193962463960682