Problem when looking at enlarged listing photos.

[littleharbor2]

I'm not sure where to post this, so here it goes. The photos on every listing now have a text tag that pops onto the photo when you put the cursor on the photos to enlarge them. It gets really annoying trying to move around on the enlarged photo because when the cursor gets over the tag it kills the enlarged view. the only way to see certain areas of the photo is to scroll the whole page up or down to get this annoying tag out of the area you want to see close up. eBay is always changing things on their layout. It's time they do away with these annoying tags

[berserkerplanet]

I don't see any "tags" anywhere I look.

Whatever it is, it may be browser specific (a page layout problem or something specifically targeted to certain browsers), could be some sort of account targeted test, could be a partial (broken) rollout of a new "feature" only certain viewers see, could be specific to certain categories, etc.

It would help if you provide some basic info like what browser you are using, and a specific URL for an item page where the tags appear (the text of the tags and/or a screenshot would help too).

[littleharbor2]

So when you hover the cursor over the listing photo, you don't get a pop up with text about the photo on the field of the photo?, If not then you are probably right.
I don't know a lot of computer lingo, so URL is a foreign language to me. I have windows edge browser, I think. The logo is a blue lower case e

[eburtonlab · Accepted solution]

@littleharbor2

The URL is just a fancy way of saying the address of the page you are looking at.

I didn't see those text tags, perhaps because I was using Firefox. You mentioned that you were using a Microsoft browser, so I tried that. Sure enough, I now see what you mean. Moving the mouse cursor over an item picture produces a text box. If the text box is big, it interferes with picture magnification any time the cursor touches the box, when moving the cursor around to examine the picture carefully.

One possible workaround: in the pictures I looked at, the text box appears slightly above the cursor when it is moved over the picture. If you move the mouse cursor over the picture from the top edge (stopping on the very top of the photo), the text box appears outside the frame of the picture, and then doesn't interfere with the magnification. 

[littleharbor2]

eburtonlab, Thank you for taking the time to verify and reply to my query. Now I know what is the cause and how to get around it.