Socialid.login.startLoginClick

Description

Starts the social login process for the given provider when the user clicks on a DOM element. Can open a popup dialog or redirect to the provider, depending on the loginType.

This method can trigger the following events:

• socialid.events.onLoginStart
• socialid.events.onLoginSuccess
• socialid.events.onLoginCancel
• socialid.events.onLoginError

Usage

 socialid.login.startLoginClick(elementId, provider)

Parameters

elementId	required	Id of a DOM element.
provider	required	Determines which provider will be used in the login process. Can be "facebook", "twitter", "linkedin" or "gplus".

Example

It opens a popup starting the login dialog with Twitter when the user clicks on the "twitter_login" element:

 socialid.login.init(1, {loginType: "event"});
 socialid.login.startLoginClick("twitter_login", "twitter");

You can test this parameters in our playground: https://sid-examples.herokuapp.com/social_logins/playground