I have noticed that tinyMCE re-formats the text typed in the Custom MetaTags area concatenating everything onto one line.

Is there a way to tell tinyMCE to use the Custom MetaTag text as entered?

I also notice that the custom tags are inserted into page text at col number one rather than the same column as the previous line. Where do I correct this?

UPDATE: I have been thinking about this a while. I wonder if it is more an issue of the page definition where only one Custom MetaTag entry is defined. Maybe there needs to be an addition to this page definition that will allow multiple Custom MetaTag entries - each treated as a unique <meta /> on separate source lines and processed as a collection much as images are handled in a carousel. Regardless, the described concatenation makes reading and debugging <meta> tags very difficult even if it is acceptable to the rendering engine.

This kind of code output customization of the base files is not well documented and really needs to be improved.

Hey there, I don't think TinyMCE has anything to do with the formatting of the Customer meta field... it is a separate Textarea Field from what I remember. HOwever you are right in that the meta tags do get concatenated into a single line. Perhaps you could suggest an improvement over at http://silverstripe.uservoice.com

Camfindlay

I think the UPDATE clause answers your needs. Please re-read my post - with the updates. I will make the suggestion on the uservoice.com site.

Perhaps it is just an update to the way SilverStripe parses the tags rather than requiring an extra interface? On another note, I think you could perhaps easily build a module that does this if you really are keen :) A DataObject and a GridField added to the Page class is likely all you'd need.