I was pulling something from / and found that it did not have any of the dynamically arranged titles. When I went to edit the page, I found a surprise.

I had originally entered a hand-typed:

<script src="/wp-content/javascripts/wrapped-book-table.cgi"></script>

However, while the SCRIPT tag was still there, it was mangled:

<script src="/wp-content/javascripts/wrapped-book-table.cgi" type="mce-no/type" data-mce-src="/wp-content/javascripts/wrapped-book-table.cgi"></script>

What converted the first into the second one, and what does "mce" refer to? This is not something I would have entered, and the type of "mce-no/type" probably defeated the JavaScript being treated in JavaScript.

(And what can I do to prevent the transformaation from recurring?)

I was pulling something from https://CJSHayward/books/ and found that it did not have any of the dynamically arranged titles. When I went to edit the page, I found a surprise.

I had originally entered a hand-typed:

<script src="/wp-content/javascripts/wrapped-book-table.cgi"></script>

However, while the SCRIPT tag was still there, it was mangled:

<script src="/wp-content/javascripts/wrapped-book-table.cgi" type="mce-no/type" data-mce-src="/wp-content/javascripts/wrapped-book-table.cgi"></script>

What converted the first into the second one, and what does "mce" refer to? This is not something I would have entered, and the type of "mce-no/type" probably defeated the JavaScript being treated in JavaScript.

(And what can I do to prevent the transformaation from recurring?)

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• just a quick question, did you add that into the post or into your template? – marvinpoo Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 7:48
• 1 Lets repeat together, the editor is for content, not for code :(. – Mark Kaplun Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 8:21
• @MarkKaplun so true! – marvinpoo Commented Apr 12, 2017 at 8:22

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This is a known bug with TinyMCE. That is the standard text editor in WP. When you hit refresh whilst editing a page it adds those tags to javascript. https://github/tinymce/tinymce/commit/5f320ac2acda15902b0488df1b7d85bf5c24ef94

However it is marked as fixed some time ago (2015) so perhaps your site is not up to date? Or of course perhaps it has resurfaced!

(And what can I do to prevent the transformaation from recurring?)

Start with not putting Javascript into your Editor.