What happens when you use certain methods to render a Multilist field?

When rendering a Multilist field in Sitecore, using certain methods will result in the raw value of the field being displayed, which consists of pipe-delimited GUIDs. This is because a Multilist field stores multiple item references as GUIDs, separated by pipes. When you access the field directly without using any specialized rendering techniques, you retrieve its underlying value, which is not user-friendly but accurate in terms of data representation.

The other possible outcomes, such as rendering only the first selected item, showing empty content, or creating an error when the field is empty, do not reflect how the field is designed to function. Rendering methods typically designed to display items or data from a Multilist field would handle the extraction and presentation appropriately rather than just providing the raw GUID format. Therefore, understanding that the correct choice reveals the raw value of the field helps clarify how Sitecore manages and structures data in Multilist fields.