Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to the rescue!

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	Facebook wouldn't let me invite my friends... jQuery to the rescue! (frogo.tv)
	4 points by fotoflo 4948 days ago

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A good example of why you should always fall back to validation on the server. Never trust the client.

Sneaky, and enormously helpful.

You can pretty much use this trick everywhere...

I doubt this works. All it does is change the client side DOM. When the form gets sent to the server they can still ignore those friends.

Thank you. I went back and looked, and you're right, it seems that it didnt submit ALL friend requests, only about a hundrad apperently.

You can use this jQuery to click all friends who are clickable:

1) jQuery(".fbProfileBrowser .fcb.fwb.text").click()

Good workaround!