App: Markdown links don't work properly when there is text in brackets at the beginning of the line
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Action Performed:
- Navigate to a conversation
- Send the following message
[Text text] more text ([link here](www.google.com))
Expected Result:
Message should be displayed like this -> [Text text] more text (link here)
Actual Result:
Message is not correctly hyperlinked. Please check the screenshot

The more text part is incorrectly included in a hyperlink.
Workaround:
N/A
Platform:
Where is this issue occurring?
- Web
- iOS
- Android
- Desktop App
- Mobile Web
Version Number: 1.0.83-0
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Please check the screenshot in Actual Result.
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
From @rafecolton https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1628560869141100
Markdown links don’t work properly when there is text in brackets at the beginning of the line.
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 25 (11 by maintainers)
Oh, ha… well, welcome to my chaos roller coaster! Sorry about that confusion, I get it now.
OK, if it’s a regression from a previous PR, then this would be part of the original job and there would be no additional payment, so I think we are OK here and I’m assigning back to @mananjadhav and we can go ahead and get the fix merged when it’s done being reviewed.
@mananjadhav It could be but You don’t need to worry about that in the Current PR. I am in discussions about the issues from the upgrade of
react-native-render-html. Hopefully, soon they will be fixed.