Viewing Review on Buyer Profile Shows no Close (or 'x') Button

[ryan45678]

When I was looking at a buyer's profile, it listed a review they had written. Being curious, I clicked on 'read full review' to read more. After reading the review, I noticed that there was no visible option to close the review popup/overlay and return focus to the main site, and clicking outside the box didn't close it either. However, if I moved the mouse to a certain spot in the top right corner of the review, the mouse changed to a hand and allowed me to close the review by clicking on it.

I've attached screenshots of the issue, including the steps preceeding it so that it can be replicated, starting at the buyer's profile. For some reason, Windows 7 doesn't capture the cursor, so I used fraps to record the screen and took screenshots of the video. However, Fraps doesn't show the alt text that shows up when hovering over the invisible close button, so I've included screenshots from both.

This seems like an obscure bug that I encountered, so I just thought I would report it. Since there was no direct way to do that on the page, this is the best place I could come up with to post it.

[ryan45678]

Forgot to mention, I'm using FIrefox 62.0.3 64-bit on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

[berserkerplanet]

Same thing in FF3.6.24 and FF31. It isn't a browser problem - it's an eBay code issue.

The close X on that dialog (and many other eBay dialogs and pages) is an image pulled from a background sprite image via CSS manipulations. Problem is, the sprite image templatefails to load because it doesn't exist. https://secureir.ebaystatic.com/pictures/aw/cmp/ds3/skin_sprite4 Try loading it and you get a 404 error.

Either they misplaced that image file, or it never existed, and is a typo in the page CSS.

Load this one
https://secureir.ebaystatic.com/pictures/aw/cmp/ds3/skin_sprite3
and it does load as does
https://secureir.ebaystatic.com/pictures/aw/cmp/ds3/skin_sprite2
(looks like that one is for mobile and has an additional hamburger menu icon), but
https://secureir.ebaystatic.com/pictures/aw/cmp/ds3/skin_sprite1
also results in a 404 error.

I did a quick tweak on the CSS in Firebug on that page, changed the background image to the sprite3 on, and the close X was as it should be (there is a close link region defined that you saw you can hover over, there just isn't any visible content in it)

Trivial fix. Maybe see it implemented sometime next year