Description

For some of my content I add a link to text and then bold it. Sometimes, I bold it first and then add the link.
For a while now I noticed that copy/page over a highlight text didn't always work, and I finally chased down the source of this "misbehavior"

If the text is formatted in bold, highlighting and adding the link via copy/paste doesn't work anymore. It does\work when using the link button, but that makes the process two clicks longer.

See below video for illustration.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

• Add a paragraph block with text.
• Highlight a portion of the text
• Format it in bold
• Highlight the text again
• copy/paste a URL. (use https://google.com or any other url)

Screenshots, screen recording, code snippet

Environment info

• WordPress 6.6 RC3 (but it has been there for a while so it's not a WordPress 6.6 issue)
• Gutenberg 18.7.1
• Google Chrome Version 126.0.6478.127

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