HTML links pasted into the "Rich Text" Editor are getting transformed/mangled (See examples below).

[Guy Anela]

HTML links pasted into the Rich Text Editor are getting transformed/mangled (See examples below). This only appears to be an issue in IE (I'm using IE 8). It appears it's trying to convert it to a Wiki Link by wrapping the URL in brackets (???). Either way, it appears to be buggy.

BEFORE:

{html}

<A HREF="http://www.atalassian.com">TEST</A>

{html}

AFTER:

{html}

<A HREF="[http://www.atalassian.com">TEST</A|http://www.atalassian.com%22%3etest%3c/A]>

{html}

Steps to Repeat: Using IE...

1. Load the Editor for a specific page.

2. Select the Rich Text tab.

3. Copy/Paste the following onto the page...

{html}

<A HREF="http://www.atalassian.com">TEST</A>

{html}

4. Switch to the Wiki Markup tab view.

RESULT: The html is transformed to the following:

{html}

<A HREF="[http://www.atalassian.com">TEST</A|http://www.atalassian.com%22%3etest%3c/A]>

{html}

[Ryan Goodwin · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This is most likely due to the round-tripping bug that has been resolved in Confluence 4.0 editor.

Details here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-6992

Best Regards,

Ryan Goodwin

Confluence/Crowd Support

Atlassian - San Francisco

[PeterKoczan]

Hi,

I tried to test this on a fresh install of Confluence 3.5.7 but was unable to reproduce it with Internet Explorer.

• Could you specify the exact version of Confluence and also the HTML macro plugin you are using?
• Could you check if there's a newer version of the HTML macro plugin and the editor that you could install?
• Could you try enable plugin safe mode and try reproducing the issue that way?

Regards,

Peter

[Guy Anela]

Hey Peter - We're using Confluence 3.5.16 and HTML Plugin 3.2.1. I'll try installing a newer version of the plugin on our sandbox instance and get back to you with the results... I probably won't be able to get to it until later this week though.

Thanks for your response!