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Background Texture not next to main auction window

G Guest
I searched the Forums but didn't see anything about this specific problem. I am thinking of using Auctiva after Ebay drops support for Seller's Assistant Basic next year. My HTML works perfectly in SAB and you can see my latest auction here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220003418327

Note that the grey rock texture surrounds and connects with the main auction description window. When I load this same HTML into Auctiva however I'm getting a plain white background between the rock texture and the main window. See pics here:





So how can I get Auctiva to produce the same template I'm getting in SAB?


http://www.practiceboard.com/?3970266
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W wahm922Member
I think this may be the problem:

< body background="http://shrapnelyogi.hypermart.net/rocknice.jpg" >

There is a reason for it but I'm not good at explaining it Confused

Its my understanding that you can't use the body tag on ebay because it changes the page outside of the listing area.

Hopefully someone who knows better can make more sense then I did Wink
W wayoutwestMember
maybe SAB is adjusting the html to be ebay-compliant, then? (course, it's not adjusting it 100% since scroll bar colors have been customized, which is against ebay rules)

does sound like, though, that SAB is altering the code to keep the background contained.

the way the html is written, auctiva's version is the correct version. but the SAB version is more in line with ebay regs since ebay says you are not to change anything outside of the description box area.
Z zbestvalue (Guest)
Customized scrollbars are against the rules?

That's stupid. Why should they care about scrollbars? Guess I'm just the major Ebay outlaw then huh.

Big Grin

Well anyways doesn't appear anyone has an answer for this and since I really like my SAB template a lot better than the Auctiva one I'll just have to hope and pray that Ebay doesn't discontinue SAB next year.
W wayoutwestMember
scrollbars - lots of people do it, but yeah, not supposed to alter anything outside of description area.

With some work, the template could be made to be auctiva-compatible. I'm thinking along the lines like wahm said, of create a table that is 100% wide and 100% tall and contains rest of template and use the background image as background in this larger table

basically, instead of body tags
<body background="image.jpg">
template info
</body>

you'd have

<table width=100% background="image.jpg">
<tr>
<td>
template info here
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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W wahm922Member
Its not just Auctiva, it won't work with any service. I'm really suprised that SAB is actually changing the way it comes out but that's ebay for ya!

The body tag affects the whole page normally Confused

I've got my hands full already helping out a few people convert over to Auctiva otherwise I would offer to help. I just don't have enough hours in the day Frown

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