WBR tag breaking hyperlinks

I was investigating the cause of hyperlinks breaking on a friend's website. She copies over her content from email and pastes it in the Wordpress editor. In a few articles, the content between the a tags has wbr in it and that seems to break the hyperlinks. You can find it on http://chandni.org/information-about-awards-scholarships-and-more/ In case it's fixed by the time you see the thread, the copied content

a href="http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif/faqenglish.html" target="_blank"http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif/wbr /faqenglish.html/a

what is shown by wordpress

a href="http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif/faqenglish.html" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" title="" class="ext-link"/aa href="http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif/" rel="nofollow"http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif//awbrfaqenglish.html

I am guessing it's due to the fact that it uses and not . Should I replace the former with the latter? Looking for inputs from people who're familiar with wbr tag.

Topic html Wordpress

Category Web

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It's very likely the user in question has the administrator role, and still has the dangerous unfiltered_html capability.

Because of this, the <wbr> tag is not stripped out by the security filters, and is left as is, causing your problems. Either remove this capability or demote the user to a non-admin e.g. an editor.

As for the <wbr> tag itself, it's a standard HTML tag, not part of a plugin. It indicates to the browser an opportunity for a word break

https://html.com/tags/wbr/

The <wbr> element is used to define a word break opportunity in a string of text. It is particularly useful when you wish to define word break opportunities in a long unbroken string of text that might otherwise break improperly.

So the <wbr> tag itself is not dangerous or problematic, and may even help the formatting of the content.

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I just checked this on a test site. I added only this link to a post.

<a href="http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif/faqenglish.html" target="_blank">http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif/<wbr />faqenglish.html</a>

The result from the page source is:

<p><a href="http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif/faqenglish.html" target="_blank">http://www.msrlm.org/mrlif/<wbr />faqenglish.html</a></p>
  • Verify the site is using the latest WordPress version,
  • Temporarily disable all plugins to rule out a plugin conflict,
  • Switch themes to rule out a theme problem.

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