diff --git a/components/editorControls/umbraco.editorControls.csproj b/components/editorControls/umbraco.editorControls.csproj
index c1dc628513..4eaa7aa880 100644
--- a/components/editorControls/umbraco.editorControls.csproj
+++ b/components/editorControls/umbraco.editorControls.csproj
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@
     <Compile Include="tinymce\TinyMCELegacyControl.cs" />
     <Compile Include="tinymce\tinyMCEImageHelper.cs" />
     <Compile Include="tinymce\tinyMCEPreValueConfigurator.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="userControlWrapper\usercontrolData.cs" />
     <Compile Include="wysiwyg\editorButton.cs" />
     <Compile Include="tinyMCE3\TinyMCE.cs" />
     <Compile Include="tinyMCE3\tinyMCE3dataType.cs" />
diff --git a/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/usercontrolData.cs b/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/usercontrolData.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee1386c648
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/usercontrolData.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Xml;
+
+namespace umbraco.editorControls.userControlGrapper
+{
+    public class usercontrolData : umbraco.cms.businesslogic.datatype.DefaultData
+    {
+        public usercontrolData(umbraco.cms.businesslogic.datatype.BaseDataType DataType) : base(DataType) { }
+
+
+        public override System.Xml.XmlNode ToXMl(System.Xml.XmlDocument data)
+        {
+
+            if (this.Value != null)
+            {
+
+                XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
+
+                try
+                {
+                    xd.LoadXml(this.Value.ToString());
+                    return data.ImportNode(xd.DocumentElement, true);
+                }
+                catch
+                {
+                     return base.ToXMl(data);
+                }
+
+            }
+            else
+            {
+
+                return base.ToXMl(data);
+
+            }
+
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/usercontrolDataType.cs b/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/usercontrolDataType.cs
index 13db9418ee..b9d99982ce 100644
--- a/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/usercontrolDataType.cs
+++ b/components/editorControls/userControlWrapper/usercontrolDataType.cs
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ namespace umbraco.editorControls.userControlGrapper
             get
             {
                 if (_baseData == null)
-                    _baseData = new umbraco.cms.businesslogic.datatype.DefaultData(this);
+                    _baseData = new usercontrolData(this);
                 return _baseData;
             }
         }