HTML Codes You Can’t Use in Your eBay Listings

All of the HTML codes we’ve discussed so far are codes that fit within the body area of an HTML page. In proper HTML coding, this area is enclosed within the <body> and </body> tags. But the body isn’t the only area of the page; there is also a head area, enclosed within <head> and </head> tags.

I haven’t mentioned anything about the <body> tag yet, because you don’t have to include it in your HTML code. In fact, you can’t include it in your HTML code. That’s because eBay provides its own HTML code for the rest of the item listing page (including the head), and automatically inserts the code you provide into its pre-existing <body> section. If you were to include a <body> tag in your HTML code, that ...

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