I’ve had this intermittently since starting with Garage sale.
When switching between editor and preview mode, quite often a string of HTML gets added to the end of the listing which results in the photos being duplicated in the listing. I’ve done a screen grab on a simple one of these:
The result show a duplicated placeholder but can be a full set of photos.
Is there a setting I could change to stop this?
Hi,
did you maybe insert your own HTML in the Editor mode or in the footer field in the GarageSale preferences>Advanced? If so you should make sure it’s valid.
However, could you let me know:
• Which GarageSale version is this?
• Which listing design and which layout option?
• What do you have entered in Editor mode / in the footer field?
Regards, Kristian
I have recently done an HTML/ CSS layout for my page, but this has happened intermittently since I started selling on eBay back in 2012.
Current Version of GS is Version 6.9.7 (625).
I use the pro-universal layout option with the 1st on top selection. Here is a current auction using my format with greatly simplified format from the last time you looked at it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/OXXFORD-100-Cashmere-Blazer-Jacket-Sports-Coat-Gray-Blue-w-Check-Size-42L-USA-/252191652341?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
This is what I have in the Advanced footer field (which you provided a couple of years ago): #gs-design.gs-prouniversal {background-repeat: repeat !important;}
I’ll look for an older auction where this happened to simplify the trouble shooting.
I have experimented with all sorts of things with this new format, including adding the CSS for the body to the footer above. (it works).
I have taken out html format out of p styles, but often, switching back and forth adds back in either text-align or adds font properties to inherit.
I’ve even experimented with break points to make it more responsive, and that even seems to work. (scheduled a test template to see how it looked on my iPad and iPhone).
Been a great learning project for me. Sort of like a kid with a new toy. Saving the responsive stuff for version 7.
jb
Hi jb,
I had a look at your custom HTML that you inserted. I verified it with my HTML Editor here and got many errors. Many of your tags are not closed/missing. You should make sure that you only insert valid code. Invalid code might cause the issues you described earlier.
Regards, Kristian
Thanks Kristian,
This is why I was looking for the older format, but unfortunately have been working today and not able to spend much time on it. Until the last 2 months, I put in all my info into the preview screen with one exception. I use a different measurement guide image on each type of item, and I found that was easier to cut and paste onto the editor mode.
The only style info is: #gs-design.gs-prouniversal {background-repeat: repeat !important;} which was placed into the footer. you provided that back in 2012.
But thanks for the tip on looking up the editors. Which editor do you use. I use textwrangler, but for this, I did everything in Mozilla thimble to see the changes in real time. My file doesn’t show any open tags, but it doesn’t mean there aren’t a few.
The following is an example from an old template (pre-editor mode) for me. Note how it adds random style info from the hidden stuff.
All the style info above was added in and its an old master that doesn’t have any of my html/ css changes.
Last question for now, the design template utility. I paste HTML into the code screen and it shows as blank, though the preview info is right. Is there a trick to that?
Thanks again
John
Kristian,
Still working to purge errors from my html as you recommended. I’ve taken my simplest listing body and run it through a couple online html checkers. As this stands, no errors are reported.
However as you can see in these screen capture, I input the html on the left into the template (body content), and invariably it adds HTML style information to several tags.
Do you know why GS appends that style information?
