@movieman990 wrote:
Yes, the iframe aspect has been something I have been reading about but even though I can use html (and I do for some editing), I haven't found an iframe reference with "finding" a word or phrase within hmtl on the listing...but I will look again. I haven't had this problem for the bulk of the 20 years I have used templates and hmtl on my listings...go figure...I figure it's something I just don't understand or ebay has been tinkering with listings to serve their purposes. Thanks.
The iFrame is not being inserted via you're HTML Markup Code it's injected into the output stream from eBay.
Imagine if you will an eBay page made up of parts... Some of those parts are static, they don't change such as the menu for example.
Now your description and everyone elses in their listing are like a separate web page, the iFrame is like a separate browser window displaying you description web page inside the eBay page understand? For example, I could make a webpage, put it on a webserver and in that page put an iFrame that displays say CNN's homepage. If CNN's homepage is larger than the real-estate I assign the frame height and width the scrollbars will appear so the websurfer can use them to navigate the "Embedded Page."
The problem with iFrame's is that the height and width of the embedded page is not known in advance. My example, my webpage cannot know how wide or high CNN's page is in advance. There are some program code libraries that attempt to deal with that problem but due to how web browsers "interpret" pages when rendering (processing them for display) results can vary pretty strange-like at times.
See... The webpage has to be "rendered" before program code can assess the height and width.
Web pages are rendered from top to bottom.
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My Web Page
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- iFrame -
- Page -
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So webserver is outputting "My Web Page" and when it hits that iFrame HTML Markup the browser in our case makes a HTTP request to CNN. It then renders that page within the iFrame but "My Web Page" has no idea how tall or wide CNN's page is if its too big it'll insert the scrollbars. Understand?
Now search engines such as Google, Bing etc dont spider iFrames as the content is from a completely separate web page. So on "My Web Page" Google will index my content, but in as far as the iFrame goes that's from CNN, why would it include indexing that under My Web Page on my fictitious "MyWebPage.com." If Google did and the assigned CNN's data to my website, then search results of indexing all over the web be complete disaster.
It is however a very very useful HTML Object in the right circumstances.
For example, many years back I ran a Multiple Sclerosis website and with permission from the Pharma companies who make "MS" medications I embedded their Medication profile documents in iFrames on the website. That way visitors to the site need not go off site to learn about the prescribing information of those medications. Additionally save me the work of creating those profiles and of course Pharma companies update those profiles and on my website, every time they update, my site's data was current because it was actually THEIR websites profile being "embedded" in mine.
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