Question
Hello all
I signed up for Andale services and designed a template to use for my auctions. Looks fine when I preview it in their lister pro program, however I send an item to auction and the thing goofs up!! I have items overlapping, wording in locations it should not be and more
What gives?
How can I alleviate this problem?
Thanks
MT
Answer
can you post the code?
you have to remember that you cannot code your template as a stand alone web page.
you are basically constructing a table within a web page that eBay created.
when you are viewing your page on Andale you are seeing it in a web browser without any of ebays codes to affect it.
eBay uses style sheets which make certain tags do different things.
without seeing your code it is hard to say what is causing this.
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Tanya
Thanks for the reply
Before I post the code, you mention that it cannot be constructed as a stand alone webpage. This is what I may have done. I would suppose then that constructing and saving as a template would potentially alleviate the problem?
If you would still like to see the code, I can certainly post it.
Thanks
MT
Answer
You need to remove the <html> <head> <title> etc codes.
also I don't know if Jayne knows but eBay started messing with their CSS codes and made the <p> tag default to plain text... not sure if they have fixed this or not.
you can try it by creating the code as a "table" only and see if that works.
make sure that you are closing all your tables and not using scripts or codes that conflict with eBay.
If the adjustments don't work you can always post the code and I (or someone else here) can figure out what is Squirrelly.
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Originally Posted by Tanya
...eBay started messing with their CSS codes and made the <p> tag default to plain text... not sure if they have fixed this or not...
Do you think they have any intention of fixing it? It's been that way for a while now.
Apparently all styles, even bolding, never mind typeface et al have to be closed before every paragraph break, and then re-opened after the break. RPITA.
I wonder if it isn't an effort to make every description appear uniform... Granted, some people are given to illegible fonts, and I get really tired of 28 and larger font sizes, but I honestly don't think it's about that. I think what they're really after is to further break down the individual image and impact of any given Seller, to make eBay the recognized player, and the Seller just a part of the background.
BTW, my templates are entirely tabled, and it has no effect on this matter of the <p> tag defaulting to plain text.
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Summerhouse,
go in and swap out all the <p> tags for double <br><br> tags.
this fixes the problem.