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Links inside file blobs and file editor are not clickable

Problem to solve

Links inside file blobs and file editor are not clickable. This creates additional friction for the user when setting up GitLab-ci when using templates that include links.

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Intended users

Devon (DevOps Engineer)

Further details

This problem has been surfaced through the baseline experience recommendations effort of 2019 Q2: gitlab-design#518 (closed)

User thoughts:

The documentation help link also requires me to copy and paste is manual, which seems inefficient.

Proposal

Make links clickable (especially in read-only UI)

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

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