Creating a counter next to an icon like facebook

Question

If you see the “notification” icon on Facebook, when you have a new notification or more, it will display how many (number), except for it, with a red background.

How can I do something like this?

I want to apply this at http://jsfiddle.net/uckZp/

Answer 1

Facebook uses an API call to query the database to find out and return this number. If you want to do this specifically for facebook, look here http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

If you want to do something similar for your own website, you will need a database and server-side code download.

EDIT

- http://jsfiddle.net/uckZp/1/