fix: self-closing script tag fixed for TinyMceEditor

[marslanabdulrauf]

Related Ticket (internal)

https://github.com/mitodl/hq/issues/7208

Description

In some scenarios the script tag is automatically enclosing other html content when used in a text component. Take for example this simple piece of html:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/asset-v1:TestX+8.13_testing+2025_Spring+type@asset+block@print_styles.js"/>
<p>This is content</p>

if that is put into a text component using the HTML editor, then problems arise, see screenshots:

Basically what happens is the editor is deciding that the script tag needs closed, it then saves the html as:

<p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/asset-v1:TestX+8.13_testing+2025_Spring+type@asset+block@print_styles.js">
<p>This is content</p></script>
</p>

Testing instructions

1. Follow the steps from Description and you shouldn't see any malformed HTML now instead you should see This is content in the editor

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[bradenmacdonald]

A self-closing script tag is not valid in HTML 5 (and meaningless in HTML4), and is only valid in XHTML if it is served with the correct MIME type from the server, which our XBlocks probably aren't. So I don't see why we would try to support this. <script> tags intentionally allow HTML/text to be inside, to be rendered when the user has JavaScript turned off. That's unlikely/impossible to happen in this case, but it's a reasonable assumption of the text editor that you're trying to specify the alternate text for the script tag ("This is content").

So: I don't think we want to encourage users to write self-closing tags, nor care what happens if they do.

However, if this is a change in behavior and is breaking existing course content, that would be a different story.

[mphilbrick211]

A self-closing script tag is not valid in HTML 5 (and meaningless in HTML4), and is only valid in XHTML if it is served with the correct MIME type from the server, which our XBlocks probably aren't. So I don't see why we would try to support this. <script> tags intentionally allow HTML/text to be inside, to be rendered when the user has JavaScript turned off. That's unlikely/impossible to happen in this case, but it's a reasonable assumption of the text editor that you're trying to specify the alternate text for the script tag ("This is content").

So: I don't think we want to encourage users to write self-closing tags, nor care what happens if they do.

However, if this is a change in behavior and is breaking existing course content, that would be a different story.

Friendly ping on this, @marslanabdulrauf!