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The mobile friendly checker can only be found on the discontinued Business Lister. The only reason it existed is because sellers were embedding images and fancy HTML into the description. The new Unified Lister discourages any sort of HTML customization, like embedded photos and complex layouts.
eBay had two tools associated with the mobile friendly checker.
- Add a stylesheet to make images shrink to fit the screen (this could actually help).
** If you are not adding photos to your description, you don't need the first tool. - Add meta code to inform the device that the description layout would reflow to fit a mobile screen, and to instruct the browser to not "shrink" the content (this was a bad choice if the content was not able to reflow, since it could then require panning sideways).
** If you are not adding complex HTML structure, you don't need the second tool.
To make a "mostly" plain text listing reflow and fit into the description box on a phone device:
- Avoid long rows of underscores, asterisks, or spaces; whereas, long rows of hyphens will line-break correctly on narrow devices and are okay.
- Avoid extra large fonts, as these may fit only one or two words per line and are impossible to read. Use normal sized fonts. Visitors can adjust their own pages to suite their vision needs.
I do have some tools to test for mobile friendliness, but only those using old templates are in need of such tools.
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/MobileSizeChecker.htm
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm
In your case, you'll find that the long rows of asterisks are the culprit.
Did you know that there is an HTML command that will draw a line across the page?
It is <hr>
and it can be displayed as a partial line like this <center><hr width=60%></center>
This type of line/separator will work just fine on mobile devices.
The mobile friendly checker can only be found on the discontinued Business Lister. The only reason it existed is because sellers were embedding images and fancy HTML into the description. The new Unified Lister discourages any sort of HTML customization, like embedded photos and complex layouts.
eBay had two tools associated with the mobile friendly checker.
- Add a stylesheet to make images shrink to fit the screen (this could actually help).
** If you are not adding photos to your description, you don't need the first tool. - Add meta code to inform the device that the description layout would reflow to fit a mobile screen, and to instruct the browser to not "shrink" the content (this was a bad choice if the content was not able to reflow, since it could then require panning sideways).
** If you are not adding complex HTML structure, you don't need the second tool.
To make a "mostly" plain text listing reflow and fit into the description box on a phone device:
- Avoid long rows of underscores, asterisks, or spaces; whereas, long rows of hyphens will line-break correctly on narrow devices and are okay.
- Avoid extra large fonts, as these may fit only one or two words per line and are impossible to read. Use normal sized fonts. Visitors can adjust their own pages to suite their vision needs.
I do have some tools to test for mobile friendliness, but only those using old templates are in need of such tools.
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/MobileSizeChecker.htm
https://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm
In your case, you'll find that the long rows of asterisks are the culprit.
Did you know that there is an HTML command that will draw a line across the page?
It is <hr>
and it can be displayed as a partial line like this <center><hr width=60%></center>
This type of line/separator will work just fine on mobile devices.
