WordPress menu>Custom Link: removing my link formatting and adding %20

I am pasting this url:

a href="#" id="event_inquiryToggle"TEST/a

into WordPress Custom Link menu item. When I hit save it saves it as such:

http://a%20href=#%20id=event_inquiryToggleTEST/a

As such it breaks the link.

Thoughts on what I need to add to WP to remove such functionality without having to use a third party plugin?

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That is perfectly fine behaviour of WordPress. You can´t just paste markup in the href field, the input gets sanitized.

Use the built-in functionality to provide special links with classes if you want a different styling. See the attached image for those fields.

You will have to activate those options through the options tab at the top of the page, though.

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