Link tag attributes "data-type" and "data-id" missing

[GrosserRichardUBL]

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Please give us a description of what happened.

When we add an internal link to a wordpress page inline (see https://wordpress.com/support/links/#method-one-the-link-button, second gif), the generated html tag has no attributes data-type="page" and data-id="<id>" with Yoast SEO activated.

Please describe what you expected to happen and why.

The html tag for the link has the attributes data-type="page" and data-id="<id>", because this is WordPress default. Having the attributes attached is crucial when using the rest api in a consuming application. E.g. in a single page application, such a link has to be modified to trigger a callback function that is fetching the content of the linked page instead of including the link as is. Without the information, that the link is a link to an internal page with a known id, it is hard to decide for the spa how to handle it. Corresponding support topic: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-tag-attributes-missing/

How can we reproduce this behavior?

1. Create a page in WordPress named "Foo"
2. Create another page "Bar" in the same WordPress instance with a text block in it and insert a link to the page "Foo" by using the page link selection in the editor (see https://wordpress.com/support/links/#method-one-the-link-button, second gif)
3. Look at the html of the page "Bar" in the frontend: the link tag to "Foo" has the attributes data-type and data-id in it, when Yoast SEO was deactivated while creating the link (= WordPress default) and the attributes are missing, when Yoast SEO was activated.

Technical info

• If relevant, which editor is affected (or editors):

• Classic Editor
• Gutenberg
• Classic Editor plugin

• Which browser is affected (or browsers):

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
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[Djennez]

Confirmed and copied to our internal bugtracker at https://yoast.atlassian.net/browse/IM-171

[keithdevon]

Hey all!

I'd love to see a fix for this. I'm using the data-id attribute to check if the link is to the current page so that I can apply a 'current-page' class with JS.

This bug completely breaks that functionality.

[saulopaiva]

Hi everyone!

This feature is very important. Does anyone knows a workaround to fix this?

Thanks!

[ElementMedia]

Hi everyone!

This feature is very important. Does anyone knows a workaround to fix this?

Thanks!

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