Inserting a https-link in the web UI changes the link into the page title

[jgarplind]

Describe the bug

When pasting a full link (e.g. https://reactrouter.com/en/main/upgrading/future#future-flags) in the post composer, the link text is not pasted, instead the page title appears, and there is no obvious "linkiness" such as a blue color or a link card implying that things are in order.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Grab yourself a nice link, such as https://reactrouter.com/en/main/upgrading/future#future-flags
2. Open the post composer
3. Paste the link

Expected behavior

The link should be pasted as-is.

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Details

• Platform: Desktop Windows Edge
• Platform version: Windows 11, Edge 125.0.2535.67
• App version: Build version: 1.84.0; Bundle info: e6d2618 (prod); Bundle date: 24052420; Platform: web

Additional context

Simple enough workaround:

1. Split the link into 2 parts: "h" and "ttps://......"
2. Paste them individually
3. Ta-da, expected behavior

[mary-ext]

seems to me the browser is copying both the URL and the page title, and because currently the composer isn't a plain text editor but rather a WYSIWYG editor pretending to be plain text, it has decided to paste the page title instead (in an attempt to get it to be a link)

I feel like we've had this issue before and the outcome was that we just don't know how to fix that yet, could you try seeing if Ctrl+Shift+V would give you the URL? that should get it to do a plain-text paste I believe.

[mary-ext]

I feel like we've had this issue before

Ah yes! This is a duplicate of #1321

[jgarplind]

Hey @mary-ext, thanks for getting back!

I'll close this and continue the discussion in the original issue.