My guess is that is due to something that GS is doing to that HTML, or it’s all the additional code around the listing design that’s breaking the HTML.
Can someone help? Plus, for iwascoding, please can you add an easy way to highlight the “mobile description” section in a future update. Tons of users search for items on ebay mobile now, so to improve that area would be very helpful.
Thanks for responding. I tried the same thing, but unfortunately I can’t get it to work on any of my listings.
Using ebay’s “revise listing” and looking at my listing in HTML … it looks like GarageSale is already including the HTML below (<div vocab …) around the description I’ve entered into GS. I.e. adding the same "<div vocab …” section into a GS listing won’t do anything because it’s already there.
I’ll have a play with the HTML version of my listing on ebay and see if I can get something to work.
I think I’ve found out how to do it! This is using the HTML editor in ebay (Revise listing, item description, HTML tab)
Find the existing <div vocab …>HTML and remove, including the closing
Put <div vocab …> etc. is required around the text you want to use as the mobile description
Including any <font …> HTML within the section you want to use breaks things. But the looks of it GS tends to include that with any change in font (e.g. applying bold) so that needs removing. I think the same applies for anything other than the most simple HTML
It takes a while for the mobile app to pick-up a new mobile description. 10 mins or so based on my playing around this evening
Time to work through my listings to revise the descriptions that are currently wrong.
Fingers-crossed IWasCoding can find the time to include this functionality within GS itself. Having to go into ebay’s editor isn’t ideal.
Hope that helps anyone who wants better mobile descriptions.
Hi Paul - no, I haven’t found a way to add paragraph spaces unfortunately. The descriptions are all in one lump. That’s using br as paragraph spaces. I’ll try some alternatives when I next list a number of items. Cheers, Colin