Title: javascript in text widget not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# javascript in text widget not working

 *  [woowoowoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woowoowoo/)
 * (@woowoowoo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-in-text-widget-not-working/)
 * This is a topic which has come up before, but none of the previous posts match
   our situation, hopefully someone out there has the answer!
 * We have a multisite setup with about 50 blogs and 500+ users. It’s deliberately
   pretty basic with almost no plugins so when a blog admin wants something special,
   they often end up putting JavaScript in a text widget. Works fine – well, it 
   works fine for about 499 users. I have one exception:
    - User A (a blog admin) pastes Javascript into text widget
    - User A clicks ‘save’ and the script tags vanish… d’oh!
 * That’s not unusual. I’ve seen similar posts that describe that symptom, but how
   about this, following on from step two above:
    - User A logs out and I log in… in the same browser
    - I paste the _same code from the clipboard_ and click ‘save’ = no problem
 * I have searched for any reason why one admin user account would behave differently
   to another and can find none. Dozens of other blog admins do this without a problem.
   It doesn’t seem to be related to any options or settings or permissions – everything
   else the admin needs to do works as expected. This morning’s test proves it’s
   not related to the browser or computer.
 * Actually, I lied about the numbers – this is the second user I’ve seen with the
   problem, but the last one was several years back when the blogs were still on
   a 1.5.x version, so I didn’t think it was relevant.
 * Any assistance gratefully accepted!

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 * [javascript](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/javascript/)
 * [text widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text-widget/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-in-text-widget-not-working/)
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