Topic: New Item Entry

What HTML Can I Use in My Item Description?

Bonanzle runs all item description HTML through an HTML filter to prevent security vulnerabilities like XSS attacks. You should find that for most HTML, 90-95% of formatting is allowed by the HTML filter, but there are a few exceptions, including some elements that eBay allows. Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to write an HTML validation filter from scratch, so we are beholden to the limitations of our current validator, which means you may need to experiment to adapt some of the HTML from your eBay listings for it to be properly formatted at Bonanzle. Here is a known list of HTML that works and doesn't work:

Tested Working Elements: div, table, img, heading (h1, h2, h3, etc)

Tested Working Attributes: padding, float, background-color, border, margin

Attributes Known to be Filtered: background, and anything inside script tags

There are many more elements than these that will work, but this is a starting list of elements that have gotten through the filter successfully in the past. You may also wish to use our WYSIWYG description editor to expedite the process of creating HTML that passes our filter.

Note that the HTML editor doesn't like UPPER CASED attributes. It must be against W3C HTML guideslines or something. So the <IMG src="blah.jpg"> will do nothing, <img src="blah.jpg"> will show an image.

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