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There are two things to understand about internal page jumps — linking to another part of the same page, as illustrated by @bigdeals.etc
1) A jump will only appear to function where there is enough hidden page to allow the amount of scrolling that will be required to bring the destination to the top of the window.
2) eBay's embedded item description is loaded within an iframe (a webpage within a webpage) that is designed to open full length so that no scrolling is required or available within that iframe. No scrolling means no page jumps. The outer page may still require scrolling, but the inner iframe (the seller description) is not allowed to touch or control the outer page, so the jump links won't function against the outer scrollbars.
A few years ago we provided a script that would allow a local link to jump to its destination in a fully opened iframe window using obscure methodology that actually forced the outer scrollbar to function. That script is no longer allowed.
The only time a local internal link will fail to work on eBay is when the description is embedded in an iframe. On mobile devices, the description is one click away in a separate window, so there is no iframe and the jump links will work there. Thus your failure exists only 50% of the time. Is it even worth pursuing?
Listings should not be so long and wordy that jumping is required. Most of the terms are now handled in eBay slots and it would be worthwhile to make those ebay slots work for you.
However, there are still some product lines where some conversation might be worthwhile. If you were to make tabs of that content, or a dimensioned scroll box holding that content, you would be able to use your local links to scroll that dimensioned box; so there are other workarounds for descriptions, but they will not include the kind of page jumps you have used previously.
The store page that @bigdeals.etc provided is not in an iframe, so the limitations do not apply. Your listing description IS in an iframe when it is embedded in an ebay page, but not when it is one-click-away outside of the eBay page.
This is a description page embedded in eBay's iframe.
This is the same description page one-click-away.
https://vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=263535851587&
@hobbytronicswrote:i don't get what your saying. a listing page always spans many screens that can only be reached by scrolling.
eBay's page does indeed require scrolling, but the iframe (the embedded webpage) that holds your description is forced open by eBay, so that inner window has no scrollbars. If that inner window had scrollbars, you might be able to scroll it a little to get to your targets. The problem is that your targets only care about their own window and their own window is fully open. eBay's outer window does have scrollbars, but the inner window does not know that so your own internal jump links do not know the outer page needs to be scrolled.
@eunster1313wrote:...but the iframe (the embedded webpage) that holds your description is forced open by eBay, so that inner window has no scrollbars....
You might have to revise that in the future because they are playing around
again and I am seeing scrollbars on some new listings in the sellers description
area.
I didn't want to muddy the topic with this situation that has been a frequent occurrence for many years. If the browser can't fully load and render the iframe content quickly enough, the window will be sized to whatever has already loaded. When the remainder finally loads, there will be scroll bars. I am seeing this issue a lot more these days and my guess is that ebay has added so many scripts and external ads that slower browser connections can not keep up. I've addressed this more fully in another post somewhere...
