Adding "Open in new window" removes all other attributes

CKEditor5 45+ had some major changes on how they are processing attributes,
can you test this patch: https://www.drupal.org/project/editor_advanced_link/issues/3534699 📌 Refactor custom JS for CKEditor5 v45+ Active

Thanks, @jannakha. MR !37 does fix this issue. As far as I can see, it also fixes the issue 🐛 Fix keyboard accessibility of advanced attribute fields Active .

Hey @vaish could you please confirm what setup you have? I applied the patch referenced in #4 and it doesn't work for me. The link works fine until I select the 'Open in new window' functionality... Where the previous attributes are then lost. For one thing this results in the node ID itself being output in the source code as opposed to the alias (because of the missing data-entity-uuid attribute).

That ticket ( https://www.drupal.org/project/editor_advanced_link/issues/3534699 📌 Refactor custom JS for CKEditor5 v45+ Active ) even says that this particular issue is still a remaining task... So I'm wondering how you got this working?

In case it is useful, my setup is follows:

Drupal core 10.5.1
Editor Advanced link 2.3.1
Linkit 7.0.7

Hey @marc.groth, I believe I know where is the confusion coming from. I usually add "open in new window" to external links so in my tests I always used external links and was focused on attributes added by Editor Advanced Link. If you check again, you will see that those attributes are indeed preserved after applying the patch from MR37. However, attributes that you are talking about are data-* attributes generated by Linkit module. Just now I verified that those get lost even with this patch applied.

My setup:
Drupal core 10.5.1
Editor Advanced link 2.3.1 with patch from MR 37 dated 9 Jul 2025
Linkit 7.0.5

Thanks @vaish. That actually makes a lot of sense. You're right, the 'target' attribute is kept... But the other data attributes are removed.

@jannakha should that be fixed in this ticket? Presumably after ticket #3534699 is finalised otherwise it will likely result in conflicts?

I cannot apply MR37 from 3534699.

D10.5.1 and Editor Advanced Link 2.3.1.

I have same reported problem when using LinkIt 7.0.5 where any data- attributes are removed if any functionality from Editor Advanced Link module is used.

For example, a LinkIt-formatted link like this:

<a href="/node/25" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="919a970f-095b-4caa-aab7-40385d426bf5" data-entity-substitution="canonical" aria-label="my label">test</a>

Becomes this after using "Open in a new window" with Editor Advanced Link:

<a href="/node/25" target="_blank">test</a>

for comment #9 - it's not this modules' issue
see linkit: https://www.drupal.org/project/linkit/issues/3535479 📌 Refactor Linkit plugin for CKEditor5 v45+ Active

CKEditor5 v45+ removes all attributes by default, unless Drupal's module's tries to persist them.
unfortunately CKEditor5 team doesn't want to implement any of the link attributes like title, id, class, etc - so we are stuck with our own implementation.

I would actually change status of this issue to "closed (won't fix)" - but we'll keep the discussion for now.

For example, if you uninstall editor_advanced_link and use CKEditor's own module which adds open in new tab ( https://www.drupal.org/project/ckeditor5_plugin_pack → ) you'll have the same issue.

all other modules have to fix persistence of their own attributes.

I agree with @jannakha. Applying the latest patch from #3535479-18: CKEditor v45: Compatibility with other plugins that modify link attributes → fixes the issue.

Drupal core: 10.5.1
Linkit: 7.0.7
Editor Advanced Link: 2.3.1 (with aforementioned patch)

All attributes are kept, even when adding the 'target' attribute