Image MD - Download icon on image view from image mark down opens image in a new tab

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.56-1
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Issue found when executing PR #37566

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to any chat
3. Send an image from gallery
4. Send a message with image mark down. Example:

An inline image and some text

5. Click on the image sent from gallery
6. Click Download
7. Note that it shows download destination prompt
8. Click on the image from image mark down
9. Click Download

Expected Result:

Clicking Download on image view from image mark down will show download destination prompt

Actual Result:

Clicking Download on image view from image mark down opens the image in another tab

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6424064_1711173893455.20240323_140041.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @pecanoro (Engineering), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp

[lanitochka17]

@pecanoro FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[situchan]

This is expected behavior.
cc: @kidroca

[pecanoro]

I am not sure how to send an inline image with markdown, using this does not seem to work:

An inline image and some text ![off](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1709983723739-d72ea88434dd?q=80&w=2940&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D)

[pecanoro]

Ok, I checked the original PR and I think I was copying and pasting somehow in a strange way. I also check the original description and yeah, this is expected so closing