That is perfectly fine behaviour of WordPress. You can´t just paste markup in the href field, the input gets sanitized.
Use the built-in functionality to provide special links with classes if you want a different styling. See the attached image for those fields.
You will have to activate those options through the options tab at the top of the page, though.
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