I tried something like this but was suprised by the conversion

❯ pandoc -t markdown -f html
<a  href="https://CRAN.R-project.org/banner.shtml#submitting"  target="_blank">https://CRAN.R-project.org/banner.shtml#submitting</a>.
^Z
<https://CRAN.R-project.org/banner.shtml#submitting>.

The attributes is lost in the conversion.

Is there any option / extensions that controls this ? Is this expected ?

Thank you.