Adding a link to text with a soft return produces multiple anchor tags

[ec-propaganda]

Description

When I have a link that should contain a soft return (<br>), instead of one anchor tag with a <br> inside of it, the text on either side of the <br> is wrapped in its own <a> tag, producing two links instead of one.

Steps to reproduce

1. Add a CKEditor field to a page
2. Put some text with a soft return in it (such as an address)
3. Select the text and use the toolbar button to add a link to it
4. Use the "source" button to look at the HTML code and observe that there are two anchor tags instead of one

Additional info

• Craft version: 4.16.14
• PHP version: 8.2
• Database driver & version: Postgres 17
• Plugins & versions: CKEditor 3.14.1

Screenshots

[linear]

PT-2928

[i-just]

Hi, thanks for getting in touch! This behaviour comes from the CKEditor itself. You can see that the same thing happens in their demo.

This was previously raised here, and you can find further explanation there and a workaround that may work for you.

I hope this helps!

I’ll close this now, but feel free to follow along under #317.