Nice quick one here. Is there a way to use an external CSS style sheet for my auctions that I'm posting?
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Mark
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Using external CSS Style sheets.
Nice quick one here. Is there a way to use an external CSS style sheet for my auctions that I'm posting?
Cheers
Mark
Re: Using external CSS Style sheets.
You can use external CSS files. If they are declared in the Head section of the code you should only use the eBid HTML editor; use of either of the WYSIWYG editors will strip the Head section - complete with the link to CSS file. My listings use external CSS.
Re: Using external CSS Style sheets.
HI Mel,
I've switched to the Plain HTML Box but it's stripping the Head elements needed for using an external style sheet. Don't suppose you could post a quick example of how you're using an external style sheet please/
Many thanks
Re: Using external CSS Style sheets.
Oh good grief!!! They've gone and broken it.
eBid made some changes recently to what is allowed in listing HTML - supposedly in the pursuit of Search Engine Optimisation. Seems a knock on effect from that is that the whole <head></head> section is simply being stripped from new listings rather than taking what is valid and incorporating it into the eBid page header section. Typical ham-fisted coding on their part. As I had not posted a new listing since the changes I had not noticed; though I am pretty sure a did some tests when the changes were first announced and link statements were then being left alone.
Seems the only way to reference an external CSS file now is to place the link inside the <body></body> tags (which tags are now themselves being stripped). That may offend the purist and break formal validation, but eBid's coding rarely validates anyway.
What a PITA. I am now going to have to fix (i.e. bodge) all my templates to suit eBid's crappy coding.
Last edited by astral276; 19th January 2015 at 11:45 PM.
Re: Using external CSS Style sheets.
I could go down the route of using inline CSS but that's just a huge PITA :-( I've reached out to them to see if there's anything that can be done.
Im not sure if the "other' auction selling site allows linking to an external css but it sure would be handy.
Re: Using external CSS Style sheets.
As said, it used to work. My listings, which were created before the changes, include the CSS link ref in the header section. Newly created listings now get the whole header section stripped on posting, so I could no longer do it. If my current listings closed and were reposted then eBid would break them without any warning (eBid screwing up users' listings is nothing new).
Interesting(?) point. The header section gets stripped from the HTML at the point of posting, that means if you Preview a listing with a header section prior to posting it can look fine and then be trashed later. Surely, if they must trash a listing they should trash it before the preview - not after.
Putting the link in the body section does work; it's just offensive to the HTML purists
Last edited by astral276; 20th January 2015 at 11:59 PM.
Re: Using external CSS Style sheets.
Good luck with that.Originally Posted by Buzzinga
What they should do (if they must strip the header section from user HTML) is copy any link declarations from the user's header section to the eBid page header section.
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