Linking to Craft Entry appends persistent hashtag #entry:77@1:url

[akukral]

Description

When adding links within the CKEditor field via the link dropdown to an internal existing entry page the hashtag appended to the URL persists when rendering in a front-end template.

Previously as an example in CKEditor v 3.8.1 this #entry: hashtag was stripped when rendering in a template.

Steps to reproduce

1. Highlight text in rich text field.
2. Click dropdown for link
3. Click link to entry
   
4. Select entry and confirm
5. Check link URL in CKEditor, confirm existence of #entry: hashtag
   
6. Save entry
7. Check template rendered with {{ entry.excerpt }}
8. Link/URL to the entry is correct though the #entry:77@1:url appended in the rich text field persists.

Additional info

• Local setup ddev version v1.22.7

• Craft version: 5.0.0-beta.10

• PHP version: 8.2.15

• Database driver & version: MySQL 8.0.33

• Plugins & versions:
  CK Editor: 4.0.x-dev
  Embedded Assets 5.0.0-beta.1
  Freeform 5.1.4
  Minify v5.x-dev
  SEOmatic v5.x-dev

• CK Editor Config
  return { style: { definitions: [ { classes: [ 'brand-blue', ], element: 'span', name: 'Brand Blue', }, ], }, }

[mfell]

I can confirm this: Craft 5.0.1 // CKEditor 4.0.3

[akukral]

Until this is addressed I'm using this javascript code to strip this out on the front end to some effect.

function rewriteLinks(stringToStrip) {
  // Regular expression to match the string to strip with optional delimiters
  const regex = new RegExp(`(?:/|\\?|&)?${stringToStrip}(?:/|\\?|&)?`, 'g');

  const links = document.querySelectorAll('a');

  for (const link of links) {
    const href = link.href;
    const newHref = href.replace(regex, '');

    // Check if the URL changed to avoid unnecessary modifications
    if (href !== newHref) {
      link.href = newHref;
    }
  }
}

rewriteLinks('#entry:(.*?):url');

[i-just]

Hi, thanks for reporting! I raised a PR for this.

[brandonkelly]

CKEditor 4.0.4 is out with a fix for this. Thanks again!