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I bulk scanned your 247 listings for mobile size on this tool:
http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/MobileSizeChecker.htm
It appears that at least 18 listings have a hard-coded width that can not be overcome by any of eBay's fix-it tools.
For instance, listing 401497074767 contains this bit of code:
<div class="a-row a-spacing-micro singleton" style="width: 449.74px;
Since eBay tests for mobile devices as small as 320px, we can see that 449.74px will not fit. You can revise that listing and change the HTML code to:
<div class="a-row a-spacing-micro singleton" style="width: auto;
Whatever editing tool was used to create those listings has added a lot of CSS styles, including the hard-coded widths.
I have written a filter for you that will find hard-coded widths and make the above change within the Sandbox tool. Click this link to load the first of your 18 items:
http://www.isdntek.com/ebaytools/ActiveContentSandbox.htm
If you want to scroll down through the "Markup" tab on the Sandbox tool, you will see the color-coded corrections the tool will make. That display is informational only and you won't use it for anything.
Click to the "Filtered" tab to see the corrected HTML. That corrected HTML can be pasted back into the HTML tab of eBay's editor to fix your listings.
Then you can go through this list of oversized red items that the bulk scanner found. Paste each new item number into the top box of the Sandbox tool that already has your custom filter, click SCAN to run it through that same filter, and scroll down to pick up your corrected code from the "Filtered" tab and paste into eBay.
152880848809
152883591983
152883803000
152891765539
152893023712
152915231471
152915242966
152919020119
401485136247
401485138133
401487626618
401492480937
401492959591
401493476796
401497079998
401497112900
401497151782
Mobile devices can display a desktop-sized web page by shrinking the page to fit onto the small screen width. This results in some very tiny text, so the visitor would need to zoom in to a tiny area of the screen to read the text. This is called "pinch and zoom" because of the two fingered gesture to accomplish it.
eBay's fix-it tool will add a viewport meta tag to the top of your description to tell the browser the page is mobile friendly.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
That tag by itself does not make a listing mobile friendly. That tag merely tells the browser that you have already made a mobile friendly page (by eliminating hard-coded widths and by making embedded images flexible and by allowing components to wrap where needed). That tag tells the browser it does not need to shrink the page to fit (instead, display at an initial scale of 1 to 1 —no shrink). But, if the page has not been made mobile friendly , the browser will be forced to add scrollbars because it is not allowed to shrink. So, if you see scrollbars on a mobile device, that means the viewport meta tag was added without first making the page mobile friendly.
Sellers who create a plain text listing don't need to be concerned with adding the viewport meta tag because plain text wraps automatically. However, sellers can inadvertantly clobber plain text flexibility by holding down the space bar (or most other keys) to create a run of characters, so avoid using that method for formatting or decoration. Another common problem is bumping the text size up so much that a long word will not fit across the mobile screen, so just use normal font sizes. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is definitely out without adding some soft hyphens.
If you need help with any of the compliance tools on this page, or with Active Content and these types of mobile viewport issues, I can usually be found on this US forum http://community.ebay.com/t5/Replacing-Active-Content/bd-p/activecontent
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