12-15-2019 10:36 PM
I'm updating my listings. I put my updated idea into a template (called testing.) How do I see it in mobile?
The mobile friendly has a picture of a cell, but it's blank & only says "no horizontal scrolling needed."
I signed into the ap on my phone, but I don't see a way there to see the templates.
Thanks!
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12-16-2019 08:56 AM
@cheri--b wrote:I'm updating my listings. I put my updated idea into a template (called testing.) How do I see it in mobile?
The mobile friendly has a picture of a cell, but it's blank & only says "no horizontal scrolling needed."
I signed into the ap on my phone, but I don't see a way there to see the templates.
The Chrome browser's Developer tools have a simulator for all sorts of devices:
12-16-2019 02:44 AM - edited 12-16-2019 02:45 AM
I just check my listings on my phone, though I don't have a template, just a bit of HTML I use. You can try this: http://mobiletest.me/, and I've used iways apps before: https://www.i-ways.net/mobile-friendly/en-us/ (I have no idea what that random person is doing looking the other way on their landing page). https://isdntek.com/ebaytools/ - I use isdntek a lot.
ETA: Try creating a listing first.
12-16-2019 04:11 AM
12-16-2019 08:40 AM
12-16-2019 08:41 AM
12-16-2019 08:56 AM
@cheri--b wrote:I'm updating my listings. I put my updated idea into a template (called testing.) How do I see it in mobile?
The mobile friendly has a picture of a cell, but it's blank & only says "no horizontal scrolling needed."
I signed into the ap on my phone, but I don't see a way there to see the templates.
The Chrome browser's Developer tools have a simulator for all sorts of devices:
12-16-2019 08:58 AM
12-16-2019 09:00 AM
Part of what I'm wondering is, how ebay will use my quickview tag. Not all of my listing fits in the tag but the main data does. So hopefully a simulator like that will show it, because it's part of ebay's rendering of the page...
12-16-2019 08:50 PM
That developer responsive mode is great! I found the Firefox version.
My previewed template looks like it doesn't wrap at all. I don't get why? Any ideas?
I added the
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<style>img{max-width:100%; height:auto;}</style>
Then the mobile wrapper
<div style="max-width:800px; margin:auto;">
My css styles uses some display:blocks but not any margins. Like this:
.SpecialFactorsTitle {
padding-left: 0%;
text-align: left;
display:block;
color: black; }
I include the quickview section, but don't see what that would have to do with wrapping the blocks.
<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Product">
<span property="description">
This is the listing I'm using. It's saved in templates, but not a visible listing yet.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/preview/1865628904400?valoff=1
I'm baffled. I read ebay explanations, and thought I included what's needed.
Thanks!!
12-16-2019 09:02 PM - edited 12-16-2019 09:05 PM
@cheri--b wrote:That developer responsive mode is great! I found the Firefox version.
My previewed template looks like it doesn't wrap at all. I don't get why? Any ideas?
I added the
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<style>img{max-width:100%; height:auto;}</style>
Then the mobile wrapper
<div style="max-width:800px; margin:auto;">
My css styles uses some display:blocks but not any margins. Like this:
.SpecialFactorsTitle {
padding-left: 0%;
text-align: left;
display:block;
color: black; }
I include the quickview section, but don't see what that would have to do with wrapping the blocks.
<div vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Product">
<span property="description">
This is the listing I'm using. It's saved in templates, but not a visible listing yet.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/preview/1865628904400?valoff=1
I'm baffled. I read ebay explanations, and thought I included what's needed.
Thanks!!
I'm a software engineer and web developer.
My eBay template looks like this:
<B> title <B>
<BR>
condition
<BR>
other details
<BR>
It looks fine in mobile 🙂
12-16-2019 09:20 PM
12-16-2019 09:58 PM
An FYI......
eBay test listing policy...
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-policies/test-listings-policy?id=5039
12-16-2019 10:21 PM
12-16-2019 10:39 PM
Hi @cheri--b,
Ebay made an announcement in June about the mobile-friendly checker. It stated that it was making listings mobile friendly by default and that it was no longer necessary to check them unless you have embedded images.
“...Sellers no longer will need to use the Mobile Friendly Checker tool to add the viewport meta tag to ensure that their listings are mobile friendly.”
https://esellercafe.com/ebay-makes-all-listings-mobile-friendly-by-default/
The Advanced Listing tool had the mobile-friendly checker, but i am away from my pc to double check for you.
Ebay recently urged sellers not to use templates, colored backgrounds, cursive fonts, centered text, etc. in an effort to improve the readability of the description field on mobile device screens. They did away with active content for the same reason. Below is an eBay link with more info:
https://pages.ebay.com/sell/itemdescription/mobilefriendlyguidelines.html
12-17-2019 10:19 PM
It's working to the extent that, on my cellphone, my template (that I now published), is compacting as should be, with a couple problems.
1) Quickview: It's not showing any quickview area on the main page. You have to click item description to see any of it. So why didn't the quickview tags create something on the main page?
2) Seeing Rendering: In Firefox and Chrome developer responsive mode, it doesn't show as compacted. So what tool will let me see how it renders on various sizes?
(Not just for this but I do some site development for my parent's business and volunteer work, and will want to be able to do this.)
It's now at:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184086685978?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Any ideas? Clues (for this clueless person)?