How to create links in rmarkdown kable when the column is collapse

I created a data.frame that I would like to show as a table:

df <- data.frame(A=c("a","b"),
                 B=c("[link](http://stackoverflow.com)","[link](http://stackoverflow.com)"))

Now I would like to display it and have the links show. This works fine:

kable(df,format="html",escape=FALSE)

However, now I would like to collapse the column with the links, I use collapse_rows but then the links themselves don't work anymore:

kable(df,format="html",escape=FALSE) %>% collapse_rows(columns=2)

What can I do?

This is an example complete reproducible quarto document, I put # on the {r} and marks in the code as it would mess up the layout otherwise:

--- 
title: "Test" 
format: html 
editor: visual
---

#```{r}
#| echo: true
df <- data.frame(A=c("a","b"),B=c("[link](http://stackoverflow.com)","[link](http://stackoverflow.com)"))
library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
kable(df,format="html",escape=FALSE) %>% collapse_rows(columns=2)
#```

You can use a HTML link for your column B and it will work

---
title: "Test" 
format: html 
editor: visual
---

```{r}
#| echo: true
df <- data.frame(
  A = c("a","b"),
  B = rep('<a href="http://stackoverflow.com" target="_blank">link</a>',2)
)
library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
kable(df,format="html",escape=FALSE) %>% collapse_rows(columns=2)
```