Edge Paste issue: Pasting a hyperlink with Mailto href removes the "href" attribute in Microsoft Edge

[zoarif]

Steps to reproduce

1. Copy Paste a hyperlink that contains mail to

<a href="mailto:me@…">eMail Us</a> in Edge

2. CK editor removes href and you are left with:

<a> eMail Us</a>

Expected result

You should be able to keep the href attribute.

Actual result

Href gets removed and only left with <a> tag

Other details (browser, OS, CKEditor version, installed plugins)

Microsoft Edge 38.14393.0.0 EdgeHTML 14.14393

[Tade0]

I failed to reproduce this bug(using the file attached).

Does it still remove the href attribute if you change its value to something else(e.g. http://google.com)?

[Jakub Ś]

I have rechecked this issue and it seems this is Edge Native problem.

To reproduce:

1. Prepage empty HTML5 page which contains native contenteditable element and open it in a browser.

   <div style="margin:20px; border:1px solid black; width:500px; height:200px;" contenteditable="true"></div>
   

2. Open attached page in Edge browser and copy "eMail Us" using Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C to make sure whole link was copied.
3. Paste your link to page with native editable element and inspect pasted HTML with developer tools.

Result: <a>eMail Us</a> . This is what Edge sees. It seems Edge itself removes the href attribute. There is nothing CKEditor can do in such case as it gets data processed by the browser.