How to tell if a request is coming from Experience Manager

Question

I want to only render XPM Page/Region/CP/Field markup if the request for the page is coming from Experience Manager (so not when browsing the staging or live sites). Is there some way of using the ADF/API to detect this? I had a look at ADF claims and cookies but they seem to be the same regardless of whether I am in XPM or on staging.

Answer 1

In the past I have used JavaScript (jquery) to figure out whether or not I'm presently in XPM in order to tweak html to make it present better while in XPM and ease editing quirks.

In your question you mentioned looking in the cookies for this information. Maybe you could use a combined JS/cookie approach.

This is simple food for thought snippet is using the jquery-cookie plugin. This could work so long as your site is not utilizing iFrames. Since XPM wraps your page in an iFrame while it is active. This snippet will see that the location doesn't match that of the parent indicating you are in an iFrame and XPM is active.

It will do the check to see if you're running in an iFrame and set or delete a cookie appropriately. You could then check for that cookie in your page and make the choice of whether or not to render the XPM markup.

(function($) {
$(function() {
    var isInIframe = (window.location != window.parent.location) ? true : false;
    if (isInIframe) {
        $.cookie("test", 1);
    } else {
        $.removeCookie("test");
    }
});
})(jQuery);

Answer 2

The most reliable way is to only output the markup if publishing to a target that should have XPM. So you should clear the "Enable for inline editing" checkbox on any Publication Targets that you do not want to use XPM on (i.e. live ones).