Adding Code Script into an email - Validation error Email Message has script tags

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I am trying to send out an email containing a piece of code to customers. I want it to look like this: <script src="{{my.Snippet:default=edit me}}"> </script>

I have created the "<" to be "&lt;" in HTML, however it is still doesn't allow me to validate the email.

It says that the Email Message has script tags.

Can someone advise?

thanks

[Josh_Hill13]

You are not allowed to put scripts into emails. No email program will permit this.

You should send the lead to a landing page instead.

[Anonymous]

There is no email program that will allow this? Support notified me that if I use ASCII art in the email it should work. Why are you not allowed to use this?

Thank you!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I was successfully able to do this using this: <code>&lt;script src="//{{lead.Snippet Code:default=edit me}}"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</code> !

[Ulyana_Avetisov]

Hey Allison,

You created a snippet with the body of the script?

I tried putting the original script in <code> like your above example but MKTO wouldn't approve the email.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Did you HTML-encode the < and >?

[Ulyana_Avetisov]

Yep. The script also has this: ![CDATA[ // ]]

Would that have anything to do with it?

[SanfordWhiteman]

Yes, take it out.  That has no reason to be in the email (and it's questionable whether it should be in the runnable code).

[Ulyana_Avetisov]

Ok, thanks.

Aside from CDATA though, putting the script in <code> brackets disconnected the form so the body email displays the text of the script instead of the form. Without the <code>, the form was showing up.

[SanfordWhiteman]

The form?  I don't understand what this has to do with a form.  What are you actually trying to display to the user in this email?