topic Re: Why is my item description HTML not showing any style? in Selling

Why is my item description HTML not showing any style?

fabes01 — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 06:26:50 GMT

So its my first time creating a template for my item descriptions. I used VS code to write my HTML CSS and Java. After finishing and reading some posts on the subject I changed my code to style my css in-line HTML. I removed my <head> and <body> tags. When I preview my item, the description shows my HTML content without any style. I have also tried removing the Java without any luck.

Any help will be much appreciated.

I would like to show my code but its quite long.

Re: Why is my item description HTML not showing any style?

gec2002 — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 02:27:44 GMT

Try placing a hard element ahead of the stylesheet, designating the stylesheet as a body element. eg
<br style="display:none" />
<style>CSS Stylesheet</style><div>....</div>

eBay sets up the page with its own headers hence no <body>, <head>

Javascript isn't allowed, you see eBays policy against it in help.

Re: Why is my item description HTML not showing any style?

fabes01 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 23:32:59 GMT

I tried using the hard element at the beginning as you said without any luck. I removed any code that might interfere with eBays own code like styling p elements without assigning a class also removed the universal * style. Not sure where to go from here.

Re: Why is my item description HTML not showing any style?

twyngwyn — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 08:34:04 GMT

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Re: Why is my item description HTML not showing any style?

gec2002 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:25:50 GMT

Possibly a semantics issues with the HTML but without seeing what you have written its hard to pick. A couple of other suggestions are

Is the CSS stylesheet hosted on a server? If so it needs to be secure same as for hosting images, also remove doctype declaration if you have it.