Experience Editor strips script tags from multiline text field

Question

I have a multi line text field. It contains some embed code (script tags). If the content editor this works fine. But in the Experience Editor, saving the page strips the script's tags from this field. I know there is a setting for this on the Rich Text Editor, but this is a multi line text field.

Here is my markup:

<div>
    @Html.Raw(Model.EmbedCode)
</div>

Editing is accomplished with a custom experience editor button, so it opens a dialog which allows the user to edit the script. After editing this field, when you save the page, it strips script tags.

This is in Sitecore 8.0 Update 6.

Answer 1

In a similar situation (on 8.1 however) we were forced to change the field to a single-line text field.

Apparently there is a bug in the multi-line text that "might" clear the data when saving in the experience editor - in our case it was also when entering html data. A bugfix is made available (kb.sitecore.net/articles/148401) but we didn't test it so it might not fix your issue (the bugfix is for 8.1 as well).

So if you need a quick solution, change the field type to single line.

Answer 2

Im using Sitecore 9.1 and rich text, single and multi-line fields strip iframe content (truncated) when editing other components in experience editor.