Editor has started stripping HTML tags from description?

Technical Q&A
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I have a client who is implementing our custom HTML tags into the product description field for an embed. These look , ie not a standard HTML tag. This approach was working fine on Monday 24th Jan, until today (Thursday 27th Jan), it stopped working.

It looks like the editor is stripping out these custom elements and/or turning them into tags with some data attributes encoding the tag. This breaks the embed. Moreover, pages that were working seem to be having this sanitising/filtering applied to them, breaking parts of the site that were previously working.

Obviously the ideal is to add these custom elements to the theme or HTML sections, but for various reason we are workign with the description field

I can’t find anything in the docs or changelogs about this. Can anyone advise on how we turn this off or correct?
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There are a couple of other related threads here, seems a different editor was introduced and caused various issues with HTML entry. Only noticed it today, so you will probably want to check products which have been edited in the past 12 hours (potentially more).

The editor we are used to has been restored – refresh, or clear browser cache, if you’re not seeing it.

I was also seeing these added data attributes (data-sanitized-), they were duplicating existing data attributes and adding this but were also being prefixed to custom tags, like your ‘provenance-bundle’ or the schema ‘itemprop’ which invalidates the code.

You mentioned existing pages have this filtering applied, I haven’t seen that. (Assume you mean products - the blog/pages editors didn’t appear to change). These changes were made by the editor (it parses the code when you go to make an edit), so shouldn’t affect existing data unless you went in and made a change today.

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Thanks for the assistance! It does indeed look like it has been restored. Glad to see Shopify saw the issue, and hope they fully resolve if/when they re-release the new editor. It’s a real issue for people not using newer themes.