Stuck! Word-Wrap in Item Descriptor not happening?

[topazsales]

I'm stuck!

For the past two listing, word-wrapping in the item description section is not happening!

Word-Wrapping off:

It seems the text is flowing left to right and right off the page.  As an example this sentence will end as if 

Word-Wrapping on:

It seems the text is flowing left to right and right off the page.  As an example this sentence will end as if word-wrapping is off!

If you care to take a peak, please see 133456863931 or view the snapshot below.

Is this happening only in my (chrome) browser?

I was chatting with an agent and they had no idea what I was talking about.  I pleaded with them to just look at the listing, but they must not have because they asked me to take a snapshot and send it to them! (Thus the snapshot!)

Thanks!

[gwzcomps]

I believe it is your use of the "=" symbol to make lines. Symbols don't word wrap very nice on eBay from my experience.

[topazsales]

gwzcomps, you were spot on!

After working with my descriptor and the "=" to make a line.  It turns out that using the "=" is fine until you use 45 or more of the character to make a line!

So, repeat "=" 44 times and everything turns out fine!  Use 45 or more... no word wrap!

Thanks for leading me to this discovery!

[luckythewinner]

The solution is not to change the number of equals signs ... the solution is not to use them for this purpose at all.

When you put 45 equals signs together, HTML considers this to be a single word. 

No matter whether you use 44 or 45, there will be a browser or mobile app where the same thing happens. 

HTML has an HR tag ("horizontal rule") which is specifically designed for this purpose. 

[topazsales]

Can you insert HTML code when editing item description in "standard" mode?

I'd rather not delve into "HTML" mode!

[southern*sweet*tea]

Get rid of the lines "=" completely, or use bullet points. You really don't even need bullet points with the bold headings.

[gwzcomps]

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@topazsales wrote:

Can you insert HTML code when editing item description in "standard" mode?

I'd rather not delve into "HTML" mode!

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You have to enter HTML code into the HTML mode.  Unfortunately eBay's HTML formatting is messy.

[drusalina]

Use Google Docs, Take your text into it and select all and clear text format    Then Go to The Item Description and Delete everything in the HTML Mode.  Go back to standard tab and paste your description from the Google Docs.  It clears up the eBay HTML Mess. 

[topazsales]

Interesting, I'll try that. Thanks!

[gwzcomps]

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@drusalina wrote:

Use Google Docs, Take your text into it and select all and clear text format    Then Go to The Item Description and Delete everything in the HTML Mode.  Go back to standard tab and paste your description from the Google Docs.  It clears up the eBay HTML Mess. 

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Or if you are on desktop you can do it the easy way.  Copy all the text from the listing, delete it, then do "Ctrl+Shift+V" to paste all the text with none of the formatting.

[philnfuz]

It is happening to me as well. Just started to day. the spacing and template use has gone zonky.

[barrythedonkey]

There is another reason for this happening:

I was having the same problem - no word wrap - but only for certain lines of text.

There were only certain places where it occurred and it even occurred when I deleted the lines and wrote text form scratch.  It also occurred if I copied and pasted the the text for the offending position to elsewhere.

I delved into the HTML code view and discovered some <span ></span> elements with various attributes, including one called "whitespace". This occured a couple of times with a couple of different values - "pre" and "pre-wrap" (somethimes twice within the same element tag - using both values). Anyway, to cut to the chase, there didn't seem to be any other occurances of these span elements other than around the offending, non-wrapping text. So I simply deleted these element tags (being careful to delete the opening tags <span > - including all attributes - which appear before the offending text, and the closing tags </span> which appear after the offending text.

I hope this makes sense and solves the problem for someone else. I have no idea how to solve the problem other than by this method, or why it occurred in the first place. I often get strange changes happen when I copy and paste areas of text form one listing to another so I imagine it is something to do with that.

[kh-vince]

Hi everyone,

Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.

Thank you for understanding.