Handling Unknown HTML in Zendesk Help Center Articles
How does Zendesk handle unknown HTML in help center articles?
Zendesk treats unsupported HTML elements as unknown and handles them differently based on the context.
For help center articles, unknown HTML tags are removed, and their content is placed within a paragraph element. For content blocks, unsupported content is wrapped in an HTML block, allowing you to edit it separately. This ensures that unsupported elements do not disrupt the rendering of your articles. For example, an unknown tag like<mytag>Hello world!</mytag>would be rendered as<p>Hello world!</p>in the help center.
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