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[Feature Request] Expose raw html_body for latest public comment in webhook placeholders

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  • February 12, 2026
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Hi team!
 

Sharing a customer request for consideration. Customer uses webhook triggers to send emails due to security restrictions and needs the latest public ticket comment with full HTML (html_body) so the email renders correctly.
 

At the moment, webhook placeholders return plain/unformatted text, and _html placeholders don’t expose raw HTML when sent via webhooks (as documented). While the customer can pass the ticket or comment ID and fetch html_body via the Tickets API externally, they’re trying to avoid involving external services and would prefer a native Zendesk solution. They attempted a Liquid-based HTML parser within the webhook, which partially works but exceeds webhook size limits.
 

Feature request is to explore whether:

  • A webhook placeholder could expose the raw html_body, or
  • A supported native alternative could allow webhooks to include fully rendered HTML for public comments in the future. 

Thanks for taking a look.

2 replies

Karl22
  • February 25, 2026

We need a specific placeholder or custom parameter to make it output the full HTML code blocks rather than a modified, unformatted text version. Else it causes a lot of issues for something that seemed so simple. 


Emily31
  • Product Manager
  • February 26, 2026
Hi Karl! Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. This has been logged for our PM team to review, and for future reference, here’s our product feedback template. This template has been designed by community members and PM's to help users provide the most accurate details for their feature request so that we can better understand your use case and needs. You do not need to update your post now but we would appreciate it in the future if you could utilize the template.
 
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