Templates look different in IE and Firefox

Hi,

Can you post links or listing numbers as examples?

I check templates I create in IE7, Firefox, and Safari, so I'd be glad to look at yours for any issues.

Danno

Hi Danno

Thank you so much for your reply. Here are two examples:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...ageName=STRK:MESE:IT

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...ageName=STRK:MESE:IT

In the first auction, my description does not show when using Firefox (does show in IE) and the Description title image is moved to the left (not so in IE).

In the second auction, my font color has changed to a purplish pink, but is white in IE (white is what I want). Also, part of my description is there, but part of it is missing. Not so in IE - everything is there. By the way, I am using Internet Explorer 8.

These are just examples. There are quite a few that have different issues like this...each a little different. I know nothing about HTML so I'm pretty sure the issue is on my end, but I don't know how to fix it.

Thanks again for your help.

Terry

Hi Terry,

It looks OK in IE7, but I can immediately confirm your observation on the first link with Firefox.

I'm seeing alot of verbose code that isn't (I think) coming from Auctiva's code builder. I've seen similar code from some other template builders. Was a copy - paste to the one-page done? The other possibility that comes to mind is use of a word processing package to build and copy the code to the one-page lister. That can corrupt HTML code. Some of the CSS styles suggest that possibility.

It's alot of verbose DIV FONT et.al. to digest, but that's my first guess as to cause. Some browsers do better than others with transplant code. If you go back to the Saved Listing and look at the code in HTML format, you'll see all the excess code present. Trying to nail-down the exact statements as cause might be less helpful than simply thinning the excess code for a test or two.

Danno

Hi Danno -

I can't say for sure that I didn't copy and paste because I actually put the auctions together some time ago - these are actually relists through eBay.

I thought of going to the Saved auction in Auctiva and copying the HTML code to my already running auction, however, since this is a relist through eBay, the auctions are no longer in my Saved list where I can easily click to get the HTML code, but in my Closed list.

Hi,

Well, to see if the verbose code was the cause, I got out my big code ax and chopped. Here is the result at practicewriter.

http://practicewriter.com/vu/?5DB12

Check it now with Firefox.

All the extra DIV statements ahead of the DIV where the white text under the Description image begins got the ax.....no finesse or cleanup. So, something in that "extra" non-functioning code was causing disfunction.

Danno

The second listing has a similar problem with verbose code.

Danno

Thank you!