posted on May 26, 2002 04:11:51 PM new
I have been using Auctionwatch for over a year to post my auctions with no problems until this past month whereas now I receive an average of 3-4 emails a week saying they can't see anything. I have not changed my html and just feel that some people can see it fine and some can't. Could it be because I'm on AOL? Is it eBay? or Auctionwatch? Do people on certain servers have problems whereas others don't? Everyone advises me to quit using html.
Could some of you please check my auctions and see what you come up with?
posted on May 26, 2002 04:22:44 PM new
Hi mallary,
Do you notice any commonality in ISP's for your customers that write to you? I looked at your auctions, and the HTML shouldn't be a problem. Can you give me an example of a certain auction that this is currently happening with?
posted on May 26, 2002 05:40:52 PM new
I posted this problem on another message board and got a response ~ "You have 5 codes to start tables and only 4 codes ending them. Netscape 4.7 users will not be able to load the page unless you are another </table> tag to your auctions.
Can you tell me in abc language what I need to do? Or could you correct one of my auctions, let me know which one is the correct one...and then I'll use that for my basic format. Thanks!!!!
posted on May 27, 2002 09:15:44 AM new
Hi Mallary,
HTML is a 'language' used to format text (and images) on a web page. Every HTML entity (like tables) starts with the entity name (tag <table> opens a table) and ends with a special tag (</table> for tables). Browsers start displaying as a table all the information between the start and end tags. If the ending tag does not appear, some browsers do not display the entire entity. In your case, if you have 5 tags <table> and only 4 tags </table>, one of the tables will not be displayed by some browsers. In order to correct that you should manually edit the description, and add the missing tag, or use some HTML editor/corector software. For additional information please look at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html/
Marius
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[ edited by mgarbea on May 27, 2002 09:17 AM ]
