diff --git a/app/logical/d_text.rb b/app/logical/d_text.rb
index c50d43f2e..9d37d74ec 100644
--- a/app/logical/d_text.rb
+++ b/app/logical/d_text.rb
@@ -240,7 +240,14 @@ class DText
       when "a"
         title = from_html(element.inner_html, inline: true, &block).strip
         url = element["href"]
-        %("#{title}":[#{url}]) if title.present? && url.present?
+
+        if title.blank? || url.blank?
+          ""
+        elsif title == url
+          "<#{url}>"
+        else
+          %("#{title}":[#{url}])
+        end
       when "img"
         alt_text = element.attributes["title"] || element.attributes["alt"] || ""
         src = element["src"]
diff --git a/test/unit/d_text_test.rb b/test/unit/d_text_test.rb
index c381a5a32..0fc68062d 100644
--- a/test/unit/d_text_test.rb
+++ b/test/unit/d_text_test.rb
@@ -124,5 +124,16 @@ class DTextTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
         assert_equal(links, DText.parse_external_links(dtext))
       end
     end
+
+    context "#from_html" do
+      should "convert basic html to dtext" do
+        assert_equal("[b]abc[/b] [i]def[/i] [u]ghi[/u]", DText.from_html("<b>abc</b> <i>def</i> <u>ghi</u>"))
+      end
+
+      should "convert links to dtext" do
+        assert_equal('"example":[https://www.example.com]', DText.from_html('<a href="https://www.example.com">example</a>'))
+        assert_equal("<https://www.example.com>", DText.from_html('<a href="https://www.example.com">https://www.example.com</a>'))
+      end
+    end
   end
 end