Question
Where can I use Markdown and HTML in Zendesk Support?
Answer
You can use Markdown in the places listed below:
- Agent signature
- Global agent signature
- Multibrand agent signatures
If rich content is disabled, you can also use Markdown in the places listed below:
- Macros
- Comment
For more information, see this article: Formatting text with Markdown.
You can use HTML in the following places:
- Triggers (HTML may need to be compressed in some triggers. Use a compression tool, like Text Fixer)
- Automations
- Dynamic content (HTML is not supported when using dynamic content in triggers or automations)
- Email template
- CC email template
- Welcome email
- Verification email
If you are having issues with HTML and Markdown not rendering properly, see this article: HTML and Markdown used in dynamic content does not render in trigger emails or agent signatures.
Tip: If you are seeing extra gaps or spaces when content is sent to customers, make sure your HTML is "minified" or written in all one line.
10 Comments
Dynamic content with HTML does not render when used in ticket descriptions. This article is out of date.
Hey there @...,
Thanks so much for reaching out about the DC troubles in ticket descriptions. Testing out a DC placeholder containing an img HTML object, it looks like that successfully renders in the ticket interface and corresponding trigger notification when the ticket is created by an agent.
Do the contents of your DC item happen to contain references to certain placeholders like satisfaction data (which won't be active until the ticket is solved)? Otherwise, if there are any pieces of data within your DC's HTML code that rely on a particular ticket ID to first exist in order to correctly render, that may also explain the rendering issues.
Hi Austin,
When I said in ticket descriptions, I should have said "in ticket *field* descriptions". IE, literally putting the placeholder in the description of the field section for customers. Support confirmed that DC will not render html here and is not expected to.
Can I use HTML in the body of an email for a trigger? We have an auto-reply that goes out to users writing with newly created tickets, and we want a nicely formatted, HTML email to be sent to them.
Welcome to the community! Yes, you can use HTML in the body of trigger email notifications.
When can we expect HTML support for dynamic content in triggers and automations?
Thank you
Hi Andriy,
We had the same problem and Zendesk support helped us a lot.
As they have mentioned, you will need to add Liquid code to the dynamic content for the HTML to render correctly. Liquid code is needed in the DC because our system uses a different rendering engine.
With that being said you can use the following code and it will render the HTML as intended.
For example, just add {{‘Some text’}} at the beginning of your Dynamic content and it will work.
Best,
Yurii.
Is there any way to use Markdown or HTML when creating or updating tickets via API? I was looking into options for creating a custom "support centre" for our helpdesk, and would love to add some basic text formatting options. Based on this, API should be able to accept Markdown if not HTML. It's obviously not an official answer, but that made me hopeful.
I tried using HTML directly as well as Markdown as per the syntax here, but it appears to create tickets with plain text.
Welcome to the community! You should be able to use HTML when creating tickets via the API. To submit a ticket with HTML data in a comment, use html_body instead of body in your request. HTML data is stripped out of the request if you use body. For more information, see our documentation on the Create Ticket endpoint.
Oh yes, thanks for this! I kinda realised I double-posted this: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408846544922/comments/4700446627226, sorry about that.
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