Summary

Highlighting text in an issue comment and then clicking 'Insert Link' (External link) produces a malformed link.

Environment

JIRA 7.1.2

Steps to reproduce

1. Start writing a comment on an issue
2. Highlight text within the comment
3. Click 'Insert Link > External Link'

Expected Results

Correctly formed link structure -

[link title|https://example.com]

using text highlighted in place of "link title"

Actual Results

Incorrectly formed link structure - [link title]

Workaround

Users can unhighlight the text, insert a link, and then replace the text appropriately