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HTML-Totally Stuck !!!

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by diane.vaillancourt

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I work for a company that sells on eBay. I never programmed HTML before but downloaded ACE HTML 5 Freeware & programmed a great looking page to impress my boss with. It looks great but as soon as it?s inserted in the eBay page my part is twice the width of eBay?s & it looks horrible. Also I inserted a background gif image (I uploaded it with our FTP program to the server we use for photos) but when loaded in eBay?s page it doesn?t show up at all.

Is there any code I can insert at the top & bottom of my page so that it won?t be affected by eBay?s code?

How can I make my (gorgeous) background show up?

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by rexworld

Unfortunately the main problem is that anything you upload to EBay has to exist within EBay's page tags. So things that exist at the page level (like the background gif) can't be written by your HTML code.

You can have a background on just your html table, but I've never worked with the particular tool you're using so I don't know how to do it in that tool.

Frankly I think it's best to just bite the bullet and learn a little HTML manually. Especially for posting into another page, like what happens on EBay, it's better I think to do the HTML manually.

by sean.kerner

what may help is to use ebay's own Turbo Lister program. It sure has made making posting easier on ebay for me.

you basically can use just about any HTML tag you want inside of the product description window - including the background gif (though it will only affect the background of the item description detail).

As rex says though...bit the bullet and learn a little HTML. You'd be amazed at how much can be done with basic HTML skill on eBay.

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