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**Category:** RapidWeaver Elements\
**Created:** [October 30, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/classic-asp-tags-in-html-custom-component/58002 "2026-10-30T22:58:35Z")\
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**Author:**  [@ik8sqi](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ik8sqi)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/classic-asp-tags-in-html-custom-component/58002/1 "2026-10-30T22:58:35Z")
Is there a way to add .asp code in an HTML Custom Component? If I try to add something like this:
\<% Response.write “Hello” %\>
in the published page those tags are getting html-encoded like this:
& lt;% response.write “Hello” %& gt;
So the .asp script will of course not run on the webserver. If I enter
\< script \>bla bla bla\< /script \>
those tags are published correctly without transforming them, so the issue is specific to the .asp tags.
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**Author:**  [@ik8sqi](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ik8sqi)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2026, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/classic-asp-tags-in-html-custom-component/58002/2 "2026-10-31T10:59:43Z")
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**Author:**  [@ik8sqi](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ik8sqi)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2026, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/classic-asp-tags-in-html-custom-component/58002/3 "2026-10-31T11:01:57Z")
Well… thanks to AI and the MCP server we found the workaround. This trick with comments and php-looking markers does preserve the .asp tags in the output and allows everything to work correctly (I added extra spaces as the forum’s safety code was mis-handling the raw text):
\< ! – \< ? php – \>
\<% response.write “hello” %\>
\< ! – ?\> – \>