Hi:
Perhaps this has been covered. If so, sorry for the repeat. I seem to recall getting assistance in cleaning the HTML but of course eBay never updates their listing tool so it continues to be an issue.
Simply put: After multiple edits of the description of some, if not all listings, using normal text (not HTML directly) the HTML code becomes bloated with zillions of garbage strings along the lines of the following:
family:Arial"><font style="font-family:Arial"><font style="font-family:Arial">
<font style="font-family:Arial"><font style="font-family:Arial"><font
style="font-family:Arial"><font style="font-family:Arial"><font style="font-
family:Arial"><font style="font-family:Arial"><font style="font-
Dozens to hundreds of these garbage lines can appear if doing edits like going between bold and normal text.
These are just one example. The garbage could be variations on this general theme. Totally redundant code that doesn't do anything useful but takes up space until the size of the description portion of the listing exceeds some arbitrary limit and it will abort updating. Chopping off piles of these garbage lines eventually get's it back down to a size that is accepted, but the same thing will happen if it is edited again.
Is there any know remedy short copying out the HTML and processing it with a stand-alone cleanup tool? I have done that in the past so I am not looking for suggestions in that regard. It's just a PITA. ☹️
Thanks,
--- sam
