Thread:Extension talk:WYSIWYG/Bug when parsing inside an external link/reply

This seems to happen only when you first format text to italic and then use that same selection as "displayed text" for inserted link "behind" it. If existing embedded link with non formatted text is changed to italic after link definition has been created, then it seems to work ok.

Other workaround is to format text to italic so that at least one space after text has italic format too and then select only text part (=without trailing space) as target when link definition is added.

This same issue can happen also with bold and underline definitions.