eBay html

[windshieldbug]

example?

[Bandmaster]

It goes like this:

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110256279512

Just replace the item numer at the end of the URL with the item number of the auction in question.

Jupiter Tuba for sale on eBay

[cjk]

Any time you have an html question like this, you can always locate and example of what you're trying to do, then select View Page Source, that wil show you the code.

[The Jackson]

I guess eBay doesn't want people to not pay for pictures by hosting them off-eBay.

That doesn't stop anyone from copy+pasting the URL in the browser, though.

[Donn]

I went back and put the html stuff (at least what I thought I knew as correct) around the web address in the field, and it still just ended up as "text".

To spell out cjk's point in a little more detail: if you post your best shot and then look at the text in a source view, and what you put in there is still there more or less the way you wrote it, then evidently what you thought you knew as correct may actually be wrong, and you just want to know the HTML for a link.

If it has been enclosed or encoded so it won't work, then you want to know whether they support links at all, maybe with some non-HTML markup like we use here. No idea. Nobody said eBay was your friend.

[The Jackson]

Killing hotlinks, but not pictures?


Whatttttever

[cjk]

yeah-yeah

Here's what I'm talking about:

IN THE PAST (on eBay) if you were setting up and auction to sell something, and typed a web address in the "description" field", it automatically showed up as a link.

NOW, when you type in web addresses in that field, it is just "text" (no link). I went back and put the html stuff (at least what I thought I knew as correct) around the web address in the field, and it still just ended up as "text".

Give a bloke a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a bloke to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime

View the source.

or view this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html" target="_blank

[cjk]

I went back and put the html stuff (at least what I thought I knew as correct) around the web address in the field, and it still just ended up as "text".

To spell out cjk's point in a little more detail: if you post your best shot and then look at the text in a source view, and what you put in there is still there more or less the way you wrote it, then evidently what you thought you knew as correct may actually be wrong, and you just want to know the HTML for a link.

If it has been enclosed or encoded so it won't work, then you want to know whether they support links at all, maybe with some non-HTML markup like we use here. No idea. Nobody said eBay was your friend.

No, not really. My post suggested nothing to do with pictures because Bloke wasn't asking about pictures. Bloke wants to post a URL link that show up as a URL. What I was suggesting is that he look for an example of what he is trying to do (in other words, go look at ebay until you find somebody else's listing that has a working hotlink that is listed as the URL, then view the source code of that page to see what the lister did).

[Uncle Buck]

The more important question is,

What do you have for sale on the bay right now, Bloke?

[windshieldbug]

I would be willing to bet that hackers have figured out that putting live html in ebay items is a great delivery device; and so ebay is forced to scrub out (or de-activate) any "live" html before it's posted.

They HAVE to allow other picture hosting sites, or be accused of being a monopoly.

Like AOL and Microsoft, I don't love 'em, but I don't envy them their problems, either...

[Donn]

I went back and put the html stuff (at least what I thought I knew as correct) around the web address in the field, and it still just ended up as "text".

To spell out cjk's point in a little more detail: if you post your best shot and then look at the text in a source view, and what you put in there is still there more or less the way you wrote it, then evidently what you thought you knew as correct may actually be wrong, and you just want to know the HTML for a link.

If it has been enclosed or encoded so it won't work, then you want to know whether they support links at all, maybe with some non-HTML markup like we use here. No idea. Nobody said eBay was your friend.

No, not really. My post suggested nothing to do with pictures because Bloke wasn't asking about pictures. Bloke wants to post a URL link that show up as a URL. What I was suggesting is that he look for an example of what he is trying to do (in other words, go look at ebay until you find somebody else's listing that has a working hotlink that is listed as the URL, then view the source code of that page to see what the lister did).

My post also suggested nothing to do with pictures. I see I was wrong to give you credit for this insight into problem analysis. Your strategy isn't entirely without value - at least, you'd end up with some evidence that eBay pages can be made to contain links - but there's no guarantee you could determine what the lister actually did, because the "source" isn't necessarily what the lister submitted, but rather what the browser finds on the site after eBay has done their thing to it. For example, here I write this like so:

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[u]this[/u]

, but source view would like you to think I wrote

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<span style="text-decoration: underline">this</span>

. If eBay does allow links, but squashes the HTML you'd normally use to make one, then likely it does so this way and you'd need to know its own markup language, not HTML. I imagine windshieldbug is right about that, and they just don't allow links, but at least if you do what I suggest you will see what they do to them.

[cjk]

if you post your best shot....

Sorry, I took "shot" to mean "picture" as in snapshot.

My post also suggested nothing to do with pictures. I see I was wrong to give you credit for this insight into problem analysis.

Ouch!