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tictictic_OnEbay
(member)
10/23/06 11:29 AM
Image placement puzzle  

Ok, here's the HTML dummy with another puzzle for you enlightened ones:

All my listing templates are set to align the images either TOP or LEFT. I have pairs of templates where the only difference is whether the pics are top or left of the description. If I'm listing an item with at least 4, 5 images, I'll always put the pics left of the description and space out the text so it ends right next to the bottom image.

Sometimes when I check my auctions, I notice all the pictures are at the top with this loooooong, spread-out description below them. No good! Now, it's certainly possible that I selected the right template before listing that auction, but then when I was creating other Lots, I changed the template to place the pics at the top and didn't realize I was messing up the Lot I'd created earlier. But I don't think that's what's happening. I have a Lot in Store items that I'm pretty durn sure was looking as intended -- images on left side with spread-out description. Now, all the pics are at the top. And it's not the only auction this has happened to -- there are several more that were listed with various other templates and would definitely have had the images on the left side but now have them at the top.

So two questions:

1. Am I losing my mind? Is it impossible for this attribute of a template (images at top versus images at left) to be changed AFTER a Lot is listed? If I edit its template after the Lot is online, and then update all Lots, the template code doesn't get altered? It's totally impossible?

2. How do I revise the description of these online Lots to change the image placement? I compared the source code for Lots with images at the top and those with images at the left, and I can see only one difference (other than colors, border sizes, etc.)
Images at left:

(TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" WIDTH="98%" BORDER="10" BORDERCOLOR="#93B3EE" BGCOLOR="#050607")(TR)(TD)(TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="6")(TR)(TD COLSPAN="2")(TR)(TD COLSPAN="2")

Images at top:

(TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" WIDTH="98%" BORDER="6" BORDERCOLOR="#6BC9A6" BGCOLOR="#0B000B")(TR)(TD)(TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="5")(TR)(TD)(TR)(TD)

See where it says TD COLSPAN="2"? That's the only difference I could see. So I plugged in that column span instruction, but it didn't work -- it does not change the image placement. Can you tell me what I need to change?

Thanks, Sue



bluepennylady
(addict)
10/23/06 11:44 AM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue,

Can you give me the Auction id numbers of the 2 auction lots these source codes came from so I can take a look?

Judy/blue



tictictic_OnEbay
(member)
10/23/06 12:13 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: bluepennylady]  

Hi Judy,

Here ya go:

Pics at left: 140043524424

Pics on top (supposed to be at left): 140033864166

Thanks, Sue



bluepennylady
(addict)
10/23/06 12:42 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue,

Changes made to Listing templates only affect subsequent listings and those changes are not retroactive. Meaning, anything currently listed is not altered in any manner.

There is a difference. But the source code you supplied only indicates the Column spanning is a tad different. Alignment is still Center.

It seems to me that several users were experiencing this issue previously. Seems like it was an IE browser issue. That is what sticks out in my mind anyway. Didn't Aquilla stamps have trouble as well with Images being strung out or misaligned like that??

Give Thom shout. I really think it was an IE issue. Boy if my over 50 mind would just work on somedays. I'll email and let him know. But shoot him off an inquiry including the 2 Auction id numbers. Let me know what he says.

Judy/blue





AquilaStamps
(member)
10/23/06 02:15 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: bluepennylady]  

Judy:
Nothing wrong with your over 25 mind at all -- you remembered the problem I had with misaligned images. It was before Thom fixed the way AW2K displayed the preview image. He has fixed it so that it now shows how it will showup on eBay.

However, my problem was spacing that changed in the template. It may be that when Sue edited the template it caused eBay to throw in spaces or worse yet delete them.

When I had the problem the <IMG tag was misplaced on eBay but correct in AW2K. I had to go through and make sure that the <IMG tag was at the FRONT of the line and that the <IMG tag for the NEXT photo wasn't at the end of the previous line. In other words before I fixed it the line looked sorta like this

<Img stuf.stuf/stuf. more stuf.Jpg <Img
after fixing it was
<Img stuf.stuf/stuf.more stuf.Jpg

I just went into the ebay page and hit the enter key to move the img tag to the beginning of the next line and mad sure no extra spaces were there.

Sue - that may help for you I'm not sure.

Garry



AquilaStamps
(member)
10/23/06 02:24 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue:
I looked at the lot (140033864166) where the pix were on top and not supposed to be there. I view source and it looks as if you have the same problem I had. try editing the auction and make sure where you have a picture it is on a line by itself at first with the <IMG tag at the front and then not having an <IMG tag at the end because it really belongs to the next photo. That may work 'cause as I remember it fixed the problems I had with my auctions a while ago.

Garry



AquilaStamps
(member)
10/23/06 02:25 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue: sorry to post twice - but I forgot - you may have extra spaces in the edited template. View the HTML and double check it. That was the problem I had. Before Thom was using the API you could have tons of spaces and it didn't matter. However, the API strips out spaces etc and at times can mess up the look of the page.

Garry



bluepennylady
(addict)
10/23/06 02:33 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue,

Thom checked the listing. There isn't anything wrong. The images are wrapping themselves as they should with the Listing template you have selected in my browser window. It looks like there are more images than will display across the top in a single line for the Auction id number you gave me.

The images have to be displayed in order and they will wrap (drop to the next line) depending on what browser you are using. There are 2 rows in my browser. The third image, at least in my browser, is a shorter image. The rest are all the same size.

So the listing template you used aligned the images across the top? For this particular listing anyway.

Judy/blue



bluepennylady
(addict)
10/23/06 02:42 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: AquilaStamps]  

Garry,

Well at least I remembered part of it. I knew there was something about images being displayed incorrectly. I just couldn't pull up the rest. But my mind isn't working very well today. I don't feel so hot

Thanks for remembering

Judy/blue



AquilaStamps
(member)
10/23/06 02:48 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: bluepennylady]  

Judy:
Sorry you're not feeling well. Maybe it's time to put up your feet, have a cup of something and relax a bit. Hope you get to feeling better real soon.

Garry




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