If you’re not sure whether your eBay listings contain active content, or how this change will affect them, you can view your listings with and without active content enabled.

Later in 2017, this will be extended to your eBay Shop pages. This means that the active content will not render - any videos, galleries or other features using active content will no longer load or they won’t be displayed as you intended. From June 2017, eBay will start to eliminate the use of active content in all listings across all devices. What’s changing on eBay?ĮBay wants to remove all active content from eBay listings and shop pages. This is often used to add product videos, image galleries, or to create tabs within the product description.Īctive content can increase the page load times for your listings, and it can be frustrating for shoppers using mobile devices if it doesn’t display correctly. What is active content?Īctive content refers to any Javascript, Flash, plug-ins or form actions that you have used within the item description of your eBay listings. To help you prepare for this update, we’ve taken a look at what active content is, how you might be using it in your eBay listings and what changes you need to start making. EBay announced that during 2017 they would be removing active content from all eBay listings, which will affect sellers with videos, image galleries and a number of other features that they’ve included in their product descriptions.

This item contains active content