# Ebay question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-question/681305>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 14, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-question/681305 "2014-02-14T04:42:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-question/681305/1 "2014-02-14T04:42:56Z")

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Does anyone else have the item descriptions laid out vertically as follows

ve  
r  
ti  
cal  
ly

ve  
rti  
c  
a  
ll  
y  
…  
.  
.  
next to the photos in the “more items related to” section of your Ebay search results?

The text used to be displayed normally but has been displayed vertically in that section for quite awhile now, for me anyhow. It is annoying.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-question/681305/2 "2014-02-14T22:13:15Z")

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I see that happen intermittently at various sites. Many times, just refreshing the page fixes it. It looks like sometimes the CSS file(s) fail to load, so the browser just displays the page without it. I don’t know why that happens, though.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-question/681305/3 "2014-02-15T23:45:44Z")

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To force a reloading of the CSS, you may have to do a complete refresh. The most common way to do this is to press Ctrl-F5.

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**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-question/681305/4 "2014-02-16T07:02:14Z")

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I tried ctr f5 and it didn’t work. But this has been occurring consistently for the past umpteen months, so I wouldn’t expect it to disappear with a page refresh.

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**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebay-question/681305/5 "2014-02-16T07:03:44Z")

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The regular search results display normally. It’s just the “more items…” results displayed below that have this display problem.