How do I remove the added quotes from a markdown link?

Question

If I make a link in the Trello description and view its markdown, I see extra characters at the end of the link that aren't part of my original URL.

If I click the Copy button and paste it to other markdown editors (e.g. GitHub), the extra characters are pasted as well.

When I try to do a find & replace for these characters my text editor finds nothing because there are additional characters inserted between the quotation marks. In this case, they are the Unicode characters U+00E2, U+0080, and U+008C.

I thought this might be a bug with the WYSIWYG editor so I even disabled that and the extra characters remain in my markdown.

Is there a way to keep these extra characters out of the URL?

Ivan Lima · Answer

Thanks for sharing it. It's a good reference, which aligns with my understanding. I noticed that disabling the new editor keeps the standard markdown. I'm now curious to learn more because If it can't be changed using the new editor, and it's like that by design, I think it's worth updating the documentation to make it clear.

Jesse Moore_yfzpeh · Answer

Thanks for your response. I found this quote in another question:

"In the meantime, the extra "" formatting you're seeing is related to the new ways that links can be displayed in the card description. When you hover over a link in the new Editor, you now have the option to display the link either as a URL, an inline link, or a card. Because those options aren't a Markdown feature, the information in the "" allows whichever option you selection to display correctly for all users. If you copy these links from the new Editor, it should just copy the URL and not the Markdown, which may make it easier to paste into other applications." - from here

It sounds like this behavior is intentional. I will contact support and see if this is something that can be fixed in the long term. Until then, I might need to use another tool that doesn't change the markdown.

Ivan Lima · Answer

The documentation doesn't mention this behaviour, so I'll leave the link here for reference.

https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/how-to-format-your-text-in-trello/