Index: /CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html
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--- /CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html	(revision 6292)
+++ /CKEditor/trunk/CHANGES.html	(revision 6293)
@@ -72,4 +72,5 @@
 		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/6641">#6641</a> : Copying and pasting links inside the editor wasn't working.</li>
 		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/4208">#4208</a> : The <a href="http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.config.html#.disableObjectResizing">disableObjectResizing</a> setting now works on IE.</li>
+		<li><a href="http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/6242">#6242</a> : [IE] Editing existing links with href of a relative path mangles containing text.</li>
 	</ul>
 	<h3>
Index: /CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/link/dialogs/link.js
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--- /CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/link/dialogs/link.js	(revision 6292)
+++ /CKEditor/trunk/_source/plugins/link/dialogs/link.js	(revision 6293)
@@ -1337,6 +1337,6 @@
 					selection = editor.getSelection();
 
+					element.copyAttributes( newElement, { name : 1 } );
 					element.moveChildren( newElement );
-					element.copyAttributes( newElement, { name : 1 } );
 					newElement.replace( element );
 					element = newElement;