The key to using your own HTML on eBay is knowing that you are not creating full Web pages, but actually inserting your own code in to a Web page that is already created.

A full Web page has a <head> section and a <body> section contained within <html> tags. The <meta> tags always belong in the <head> section. And most search engines will only recognize them when they are in the <head> section, so putting them elsewhere really does not help at all. All the other tags should be used ONCE on any Web page.

<html>

<head>

<title>My Website</title>

<meta name="keywords" content="html ebay tutorials" />

</head>

<body>

This is where all the coding ends up that you upload to eBay.

</body>

</html>

When you create your own HTML for an auction listing, a custom store page, a "me" page, etc, and copy/paste it in to eBay, you are actually inserting it in its designated location withing the <body> section of the eBay page.

If you create your HTML in a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) editor, it will most likely use the tags listed above as well as some others. The solution is to copy the section between the opening <body> tag and the closing </body> tag.

Some WYSIWYG editors style all the code using embedded style sheets, which you will find as <style></style> in the <head> section of your code. Although you can use embedded style sheets, you must do so with caution. Read "Using CSS" for more information.

Summary

These tags and their associated ending tags should NEVER be used on eBay:

<html>, <head>, <title>, <meta>, <base>, <basefont>, <link>, <body>

These tags and their associated ending tags can not be used on eBay (eBays editor will spit out your code):

<frame>, <iframe>, <frameset>, <isindex>, <noframes>

Although this tag and its associated ending tag belongs in the <head> section, it may be used with caution:

<style>

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