Only portion of a hyperlink's URL is updated when selecting part of the text of a hyperlink

[jbalinski]

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Create a hyperlink that spans multiple words.
2. Select a portion of the hyperlink text leaving part of the hyperlink on the left and right unselected.
3. Edit the hyperlink.

✔️ Expected result

Editing the URL by selecting any part of a hyperlink should update the URL for the whole hyperlink. This is not expected behavior when compared to other major editors such as Microsoft Word and Google Docs and I cannot think of a valid workflow where a user would actually want this behavior.

❌ Actual result

New hyperlinks are created. With the workflow above we now have 3 hyperlinks right next to one another. Two of them have the original URL and the one in the middle has the new URL.

❓ Possible solution

When a user edits the URL of a hyperlink and has selected only a portion of the hyperlink text, automatically extend the selection to the rest of the hyperlink.

📃 Other details

• Browser: Edge 131, Chrome 131
• OS: Windows 11
• First affected CKEditor version: NA
• Installed CKEditor plugins: Hyperlink -- see CKEditor 5 demo page

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