diff --git a/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/HTMLRenderers/MentionUserRenderer.tsx b/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/HTMLRenderers/MentionUserRenderer.tsx
index 0c7c82534bbb..504ddecb492b 100644
--- a/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/HTMLRenderers/MentionUserRenderer.tsx
+++ b/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/HTMLRenderers/MentionUserRenderer.tsx
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ function MentionUserRenderer({style, tnode, TDefaultRenderer, currentUserPersona
                             {...defaultRendererProps}
                             style={[styles.link, styleWithoutColor, StyleUtils.getMentionStyle(isOurMention), {color: StyleUtils.getMentionTextColor(isOurMention)}]}
                             role={CONST.ROLE.LINK}
-                            testID="span"
+                            testID="mention-user"
                             href={`/${navigationRoute}`}
                         >
                             {htmlAttribAccountID ? `@${mentionDisplayText}` : <TNodeChildrenRenderer tnode={tnodeClone} />}
diff --git a/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.ts b/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.ts
index 8d7f3e7055fc..eda38a43507c 100644
--- a/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.ts
+++ b/src/libs/SelectionScraper/index.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {parseDocument} from 'htmlparser2';
 import CONST from '@src/CONST';
 import type GetCurrentSelection from './types';
 
-const markdownElements = ['h1', 'strong', 'em', 'del', 'blockquote', 'q', 'code', 'pre', 'a', 'br', 'li', 'ul', 'ol', 'b', 'i', 's'];
+const markdownElements = ['h1', 'strong', 'em', 'del', 'blockquote', 'q', 'code', 'pre', 'a', 'br', 'li', 'ul', 'ol', 'b', 'i', 's', 'mention-user'];
 const tagAttribute = 'data-testid';
 
 /**