topic Re: is HTML editor broken or locked down? in Ask a member

is HTML editor broken or locked down?

pecksterism — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 01:03:35 GMT

Hi - I am trying to add a link to product specs in my listing description, like so:

click <a href=“https://www.harmankardon.com.au/BTA+10.html” target=“_blank”>here</a >

When I try to add anything in the HTML Editor the cursor and added text just jumps to the end and added HTML code just vanishes.

I used to to this a lot - has there been a change???

Re: is HTML editor broken or locked down?

shoppingbag* — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 01:19:33 GMT

Someone with more knowledge on this could probably answer you better than me, but I seem to remember something quite some time back about changes to this, that it could no longer be used.

Re: is HTML editor broken or locked down?

davewil1964 — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 04:49:06 GMT

You can no longer add HTML or links to external sites to your listings.

eBay sent numerous notices about this last year.

Re: is HTML editor broken or locked down?

pecksterism — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:26:07 GMT

The issue turned out to be a glitch in Safari. Worked fine in Firefox.

Shame about the policy change - was handy to give buyers a simple link to product specs.

BTW you can still add links - but only to videos.