posted on June 10, 2003 07:54:45 AM
HELP! I listed 2 auctions with standard template 24 (black background with all pics on left) When I checked my auctions on eBay I found the black fackground color went to the bottom of the page. NONE of the black font eBay uses to give instructions on bidding or even the current bid amt will show up. I tried to correct this by revising auction using the tag < /bgcolor=FFFFFF >at the end of my listing but this did not help. How can I get the eBay font to show up so folks can bid?
(auctions #2328398575 & 2328400864 )
posted on June 10, 2003 09:57:02 AM
Hi Sonya,
This auction was listed through SMPRO. The flaw didn't show in preview.
I realized these was a problem when I viewed the auction after launching. I tried to edit these by going to revise item and entering < /bgcolor=FFFFFF >. This didn't work.... If you have a fix for this, please let me know.
Remember amateurs built the ark - Professionals built the Titanic.
Do you free write your HTML? I checked the HTML you used in your item description and it looked like you had a lot of extra HTML tags in there, with some incorrect tags, which caused the black background to stretch out through out the whole page. You may want to review all the HTML you use and make sure you properly close all tags, and remove any extra tags that don't need to be there.
posted on June 10, 2003 11:01:20 AM
They only HTML I wrote for these were:
<Font Face= "Book Antiqua, times roman, Garamond">
<CENTER>
</CENTER>
<BIG>
</BIG>
<B>
</B>
<FONT COLOR = "RED">
</FONT COLOR = "RED">
<P>
<BR>
The only other HTML in this listing is yours ( by by of the template)
eBay's default, PayPal's, & a "mailto" link.
If you spotted bad HTML please tell me what it is so I can fix it.
Remember amateurs built the ark - Professionals built the Titanic.
I copied both auctions into pending for reference. The tag that is there that is causing it to stretch is towards the end of your description. It is this tag:
<table border="0" >
If you preview those two now, you'll see that the black stretches over the Vendio icon that promotes the free trial to our services. Take that tag out, and you'll see that the black part closes properly, above that icon with the free trial text.
The other stuff I saw in your HTML is relatively minor, for example when you close out your font tag there is no need to close it as </font color="red"> -- you can just close it as </font> and that will be okay.
The second listing in your pending also has an extra </a> tag in it, after your Iship link.
Let me know if you have any other questions about this.
