[BUG] Table column width does not properly detect Markdown links

[CollinHeist]

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• I can't find my issue in the FAQ.

Describe the bug

Markdown links, when rendered in a Table/Column with an auto width (width=None) will improperly resize to fit the "raw" markdown text, not the resulting render. This may result in very wide columns (as URLs are generally very long) when a much shorter result would be sufficient. For example:

MRE:

from rich.console import Console
from rich.table import Table
from rich.markdown import Markdown

table = Table(title='Example')
table.add_column('A')
table.add_column('B')

table.add_row('Renders Correctly', 'Short Text')
table.add_row('Renders Incorrectly', Markdown('[Long Text](https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tables.html)'))

Console().print(table)

Platform

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╭───────────────────────── <class 'rich.console.Console'> ─────────────────────────╮
│ A high level console interface.                                                  │
│                                                                                  │
│ ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │
│ │ <console width=134 ColorSystem.TRUECOLOR>                                    │ │
│ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ │
│                                                                                  │
│     color_system = 'truecolor'                                                   │
│         encoding = 'utf-8'                                                       │
│             file = <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'> │
│           height = 72                                                            │
│    is_alt_screen = False                                                         │
│ is_dumb_terminal = False                                                         │
│   is_interactive = True                                                          │
│       is_jupyter = False                                                         │
│      is_terminal = True                                                          │
│   legacy_windows = False                                                         │
│         no_color = False                                                         │
│          options = ConsoleOptions(                                               │
│                        size=ConsoleDimensions(width=134, height=72),             │
│                        legacy_windows=False,                                     │
│                        min_width=1,                                              │
│                        max_width=134,                                            │
│                        is_terminal=True,                                         │
│                        encoding='utf-8',                                         │
│                        max_height=72,                                            │
│                        justify=None,                                             │
│                        overflow=None,                                            │
│                        no_wrap=False,                                            │
│                        highlight=None,                                           │
│                        markup=None,                                              │
│                        height=None                                               │
│                    )                                                             │
│            quiet = False                                                         │
│           record = False                                                         │
│         safe_box = True                                                          │
│             size = ConsoleDimensions(width=134, height=72)                       │
│        soft_wrap = False                                                         │
│           stderr = False                                                         │
│            style = None                                                          │
│         tab_size = 8                                                             │
│            width = 134                                                           │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭── <class 'rich._windows.WindowsConsoleFeatures'> ───╮
│ Windows features available.                         │
│                                                     │
│ ╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │
│ │ WindowsConsoleFeatures(vt=True, truecolor=True) │ │
│ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ │
│                                                     │
│ truecolor = True                                    │
│        vt = True                                    │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭────── Environment Variables ───────╮
│ {                                  │
│     'TERM': None,                  │
│     'COLORTERM': None,             │
│     'CLICOLOR': None,              │
│     'NO_COLOR': None,              │
│     'TERM_PROGRAM': None,          │
│     'COLUMNS': None,               │
│     'LINES': None,                 │
│     'JUPYTER_COLUMNS': None,       │
│     'JUPYTER_LINES': None,         │
│     'JPY_PARENT_PID': None,        │
│     'VSCODE_VERBOSE_LOGGING': None │
│ }                                  │
╰────────────────────────────────────╯
platform="Windows"

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[TomJGooding]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but adding Markdown to a Table doesn't have the optimal width regardless if the markdown has a link?

from rich.console import Console
from rich.markdown import Markdown
from rich.table import Table

console = Console()

table = Table()
table.add_column("A")
table.add_column("B")

table.add_row("String", "String")
table.add_row(Markdown("Markdown"), "String")

console.print(table)

If you simply wanted to include hyperlinks in the table, maybe you could simply use console markup as a workaround?