Tag strips lose their bullets, and a parts link can be an affiliate link without a code change

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The bullets

The parts vendors rendered as a bulleted, indented list. The site's own Tags component writes <span class="tags"> with <a class="tag"> children; I wrote <ul class="tags"> with <li class="tag">. .tags had no list-style or padding reset, so the browser's discs and its 40px indent came through — the same component looking like two different things depending on which markup someone reached for, which is the same failure mode as the type-less input last time.

Fixed in both places: .tags now clears the marker and the indent so either spelling renders identically, and the parts entries use the house pattern where the tag is the link, rather than a pill with a differently-coloured link inside it.

Affiliate links

Groundwork, not an account — see the note at the bottom on why.

Every one of these networks builds a tracking link the same way: their own URL with the real destination encoded inside it. Rather than teach this file the shape of a CJ, Rakuten and EPN link and get one of them subtly wrong, a deployment supplies the template its network gave it:

AFFILIATE_LINKS="ebay=https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?mpre={url}&campid=5338XXXXXX,
                 napa=https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=ID&mid=MID&murl={url}"

and the destination is encoded into the hole. So a new network needs no code, only its template.

• A vendor with no template is linked plainly — which is all six of them today.
• A template with no {url} is ignored, rather than sending every buyer to a vendor's front page and tracking nothing.
• A non-https template is ignored.
• Junk between the commas doesn't take the rest of the list down with it.
• A wrapped link is marked sponsored: true in the JSON payload and carries rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", which Google and the FTC both want. Unwrapped links stay rel="nofollow noopener".
• The page shows a disclosure line only when a link on it actually pays us.

Which programmes actually exist

Checked against the vendors and networks rather than taken from an affiliate directory, and recorded next to each vendor in PARTS_VENDORS so nobody re-researches it:

Vendor	Programme
eBay Motors	eBay Partner Network
AutoZone	CJ Affiliate
NAPA	Rakuten Advertising, 1% baseline, 30-day cookie
RockAuto	none on any major network
O'Reilly Auto Parts	none found
Car-Part.com	none found

What is not in this PR

No account was created and no application was submitted. All three programmes gate on a publisher account with the network plus a W-9 carrying an SSN or EIN and payout details, then human approval. That is a binding agreement in Anthony's name and his tax identity to supply — the same wall ~/affiliate-signup-pack.md documented in August ("Registering means creating an account and accepting a binding agreement as you… That is yours to sign").

The blocker is not automation, so a sh1pt browser recipe would not clear it. The moment any one of them is approved, it is one env var and no deploy-time code change.

Verified

• 118 tests pass (4 new, covering plain-by-default, wrapping + sponsored, the three rejected template shapes, and an unknown vendor)
• biome clean
• Rendered in Chrome with a test template set: ul.tags computes list-style: none, padding-left: 0px, margin-left: 0px; the eBay pill points at rover.ebay.com with rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" while the other five stay on their own hosts with rel="nofollow noopener"; the disclosure line appears

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