Stray Code After CSV Import

[svbargains]

This is more of an annoyance that a problem, but after importing Listings via CSV, this stray #999999 appears below the listing. It doesn’t show up anywhere in Edit mode so I can’t figure out where it is coming from.

The stray code does not appear in Listings manually created in GS.

[vjl]

Could it be the background color of your template? That’s dark grey in hex - 60% blue, red and green. It is a common websafe color, so my thinking is it belongs in the HTML code for the template [or CSS].

[svbargains]

That was my thought too, but if you bring up a live listing that it appears, and do a “View Source” in Chrome the text #999999 doesn’t show up anywhere.

[vjl]

Are there any externally called CSS files in the HTML source? It just seems to be too much of a coincidence. Are you using a template that came with GS or a custom or customized one?

[vjl]

Okay, I did a search on one of your items listed on eBay and I do see the #999999 in the HTML code just after the gs8-design DIV. I’m using Safari and it’s built in “inspect element” feature. See attachment.

EDIT: it is at the very bottom of your templates after the satisfaction rating text. Maybe double check the Footer preference in GS?

[kristian]

I do not think that this is a general problem with the CSV import. My guess is that this some orphaned color code, probably caused by mixed up text formatting/HTML code. (However that happened.)
I am assuming that the only way to fix it is to manually delete it from the item description in GarageSale’s Editor Mode.

[svbargains]

vjl - excellent find! However that code is not in the GS-produced code in the description (where #999999 is not found anywhere). Perhaps it is something that eBay adds to the upload.

kristian - as I said above that text is nowhere in the GS code so nothing to edit. Based on what vjl found maybe it’s something that eBay adds as where vjl points to there some stuff about border colors and such. I think you are right it is not related to the import.

As I said, it’s an annoyance, not a problem. I can live with it. Thank you both for your reponses.

[ilja]

Could that #99999 be coming from the footer you configured in GarageSale’s preferences?

[svbargains]

OK, you guys inspired me to further testing…so what I think I have found is specific to the “Anthracite” theme.

• First I just made a listing with straight text…no #999999 (so can’t pin this on eBay)
• same listing with Antrhacite theme…#999999 appears at the bottom
• changed the theme randomly to “Airmail” then a couple of others…no #999999

Ilja - as to footer, I tried the various GS footers, the #999999 shows up, then tried “Custom” complete blank and with a single character, it still appears, so it’s not the footer.

So I think it’s just the Anthracite theme, which is what I’ve been using for most of my listings. I’ve tried changing various options in “Properties” on a listing with that theme but the #999999 text still shows up.

I don’t find any place to edit a theme, maybe missing something…

[kristian]

Thank you for figuring this out. Maybe there is an issue with this particular design template, I will check. What layout option do you have selected for usual? (“Images Up”, “Images Left”,…?)

[vjl]

Looking at their listings, it looks like images right.

[vjl]

I can confirm that #99999 shows up for me without any data in the Preview area. Using default properties and haven’t put any real info other than filler text in. See screenshots.

[svbargains]

I changed different images settings - left, right, no images, hover, all show the text.

[svbargains]

listing.txt (47.1 KB)

I don’t know how to read all this but I think the errant text might be on line 654.

[kristian]

That “#999999” is the color for “Caption” that you can set in the Properties Inspector.

It turned out that the placeholder for that caption color was inserted at the very bottom of the Anthracite design by accident.
We’ll fix this in an updated version of GarageSale.

If you don’t want to wait you can fix it by yourself by using our “Design Utility”. This is how:

1. Open the Design Utility.
2. On the left expand “Built-in Designs”, select the “Anthracite” design and hit the Duplicate button in the toolbar.
3. The duplicated design will appear under “Custom Designs”.
4. In “Source code” mode scroll to the very bottom. There you find the “[[item.designProps.Captions]]” placeholder. Just remove it.
5. Next, switch to “General” mode and change the field “Design Name” to e.g. “Anthracite (fixed)” and the field “Design Identifier” to something unique, e.g. “com.svbargains.anthracite”
6. Finally, click on the Save button in the toolbar.
7. Restart GarageSale and select your newly created design from the GarageSale Design Browser.

[svbargains]

Thanks Kristian - this kind of support is why GS is the best!

And thanks for your help as well VJL!

Cheers, all.

[kristian]

You can give this a try to download the fixed version of the Anthracite design:

1. From GarageSale’s Window menu select “Show Design Templates”.
2. In the Design Templates window find the Anthracite design. In the “Version” column you see the current version number “5.1” and it should say something like “5.2 available”.
3. If so just click the download button in the toolbar and wait a moment.
4. Restart GarageSale and check your listings. That “#999999” should no longer appear.

[svbargains]

Gone. Thank you once again!