diff --git a/polygerrit-ui/app/elements/shared/gr-linked-text/gr-linked-text_test.html b/polygerrit-ui/app/elements/shared/gr-linked-text/gr-linked-text_test.html
index 15a7f59fb1..e60dd423b7 100644
--- a/polygerrit-ui/app/elements/shared/gr-linked-text/gr-linked-text_test.html
+++ b/polygerrit-ui/app/elements/shared/gr-linked-text/gr-linked-text_test.html
@@ -278,16 +278,58 @@ limitations under the License.
       let links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
       assert.equal(links.length, 1);
       assert.equal(links[0].getAttribute('href'), 'mailto:test@google.com');
+      assert.equal(links[0].innerHTML, 'mailto:test@google.com');
 
       element.content = 'xx http://google.com yy';
       links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
       assert.equal(links.length, 1);
       assert.equal(links[0].getAttribute('href'), 'http://google.com');
+      assert.equal(links[0].innerHTML, 'http://google.com');
 
       element.content = 'xx https://google.com yy';
       links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
       assert.equal(links.length, 1);
       assert.equal(links[0].getAttribute('href'), 'https://google.com');
+      assert.equal(links[0].innerHTML, 'https://google.com');
+
+      element.content = 'xx ssh://google.com yy';
+      links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
+      assert.equal(links.length, 0);
+
+      element.content = 'xx ftp://google.com yy';
+      links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
+      assert.equal(links.length, 0);
+    });
+
+    test('links without leading whitespace are linkified', () => {
+      element.content = 'xx abcmailto:test@google.com yy';
+      assert.equal(element.$.output.innerHTML.substr(0, 6), 'xx abc');
+      let links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
+      assert.equal(links.length, 1);
+      assert.equal(links[0].getAttribute('href'), 'mailto:test@google.com');
+      assert.equal(links[0].innerHTML, 'mailto:test@google.com');
+
+      element.content = 'xx defhttp://google.com yy';
+      assert.equal(element.$.output.innerHTML.substr(0, 6), 'xx def');
+      links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
+      assert.equal(links.length, 1);
+      assert.equal(links[0].getAttribute('href'), 'http://google.com');
+      assert.equal(links[0].innerHTML, 'http://google.com');
+
+      element.content = 'xx qwehttps://google.com yy';
+      assert.equal(element.$.output.innerHTML.substr(0, 6), 'xx qwe');
+      links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
+      assert.equal(links.length, 1);
+      assert.equal(links[0].getAttribute('href'), 'https://google.com');
+      assert.equal(links[0].innerHTML, 'https://google.com');
+
+      // Non-latin character
+      element.content = 'xx абвhttps://google.com yy';
+      assert.equal(element.$.output.innerHTML.substr(0, 6), 'xx абв');
+      links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
+      assert.equal(links.length, 1);
+      assert.equal(links[0].getAttribute('href'), 'https://google.com');
+      assert.equal(links[0].innerHTML, 'https://google.com');
 
       element.content = 'xx ssh://google.com yy';
       links = element.$.output.querySelectorAll('a');
diff --git a/polygerrit-ui/app/elements/shared/gr-linked-text/link-text-parser.js b/polygerrit-ui/app/elements/shared/gr-linked-text/link-text-parser.js
index 455c50bfcd..fa38a66007 100644
--- a/polygerrit-ui/app/elements/shared/gr-linked-text/link-text-parser.js
+++ b/polygerrit-ui/app/elements/shared/gr-linked-text/link-text-parser.js
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
    *
    * @type {RegExp}
    */
-  const URL_PROTOCOL_PATTERN = /^(https?:\/\/|mailto:)/;
+  const URL_PROTOCOL_PATTERN = /^(.*)(https?:\/\/|mailto:)/;
 
   /**
    * Construct a parser for linkifying text. Will linkify plain URLs that appear
@@ -256,13 +256,29 @@
     // the source text does not include a protocol, the protocol will be added
     // by ba-linkify. Create the link if the href is provided and its protocol
     // matches the expected pattern.
-    if (href && URL_PROTOCOL_PATTERN.test(href)) {
-      this.addText(text, href);
-    } else {
-      // For the sections of text that lie between the links found by
-      // ba-linkify, we search for the project-config-specified link patterns.
-      this.parseLinks(text, this.linkConfig);
+    if (href) {
+      const result = URL_PROTOCOL_PATTERN.exec(href);
+      if (result) {
+        const prefixText = result[1];
+        if (prefixText.length > 0) {
+          // Fix for simple cases from
+          // https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=11697
+          // When leading whitespace is missed before link,
+          // linkify add this text before link as a schema name to href.
+          // We suppose, that prefixText just a single word
+          // before link and add this word as is, without processing
+          // any patterns in it.
+          this.parseLinks(prefixText, []);
+          text = text.substring(prefixText.length);
+          href = href.substring(prefixText.length);
+        }
+        this.addText(text, href);
+        return;
+      }
     }
+    // For the sections of text that lie between the links found by
+    // ba-linkify, we search for the project-config-specified link patterns.
+    this.parseLinks(text, this.linkConfig);
   };
 
   /**