diff --git a/src/core/render/compiler.js b/src/core/render/compiler.js
index 17e0a8144..557507721 100644
--- a/src/core/render/compiler.js
+++ b/src/core/render/compiler.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { tree as treeTpl } from './tpl';
 import { genTree } from './gen-tree';
 import { slugify } from './slugify';
 import { emojify } from './emojify';
-import { getAndRemoveConfig } from './utils';
+import { getAndRemoveConfig, removeAtag } from './utils';
 import { imageCompiler } from './compiler/image';
 import { highlightCodeCompiler } from './compiler/code';
 import { paragraphCompiler } from './compiler/paragraph';
@@ -206,29 +206,29 @@ export class Compiler {
      */
     origin.heading = renderer.heading = function(text, level) {
       let { str, config } = getAndRemoveConfig(text);
-      const nextToc = { level, title: str };
+      const nextToc = { level, title: removeAtag(str) };
 
       if (/<!-- {docsify-ignore} -->/g.test(str)) {
         str = str.replace('<!-- {docsify-ignore} -->', '');
-        nextToc.title = str;
+        nextToc.title = removeAtag(str);
         nextToc.ignoreSubHeading = true;
       }
 
       if (/{docsify-ignore}/g.test(str)) {
         str = str.replace('{docsify-ignore}', '');
-        nextToc.title = str;
+        nextToc.title = removeAtag(str);
         nextToc.ignoreSubHeading = true;
       }
 
       if (/<!-- {docsify-ignore-all} -->/g.test(str)) {
         str = str.replace('<!-- {docsify-ignore-all} -->', '');
-        nextToc.title = str;
+        nextToc.title = removeAtag(str);
         nextToc.ignoreAllSubs = true;
       }
 
       if (/{docsify-ignore-all}/g.test(str)) {
         str = str.replace('{docsify-ignore-all}', '');
-        nextToc.title = str;
+        nextToc.title = removeAtag(str);
         nextToc.ignoreAllSubs = true;
       }
 
diff --git a/src/core/render/compiler/headline.js b/src/core/render/compiler/headline.js
index 48ae9e8c9..61e4b3fb9 100644
--- a/src/core/render/compiler/headline.js
+++ b/src/core/render/compiler/headline.js
@@ -1,32 +1,32 @@
-import { getAndRemoveConfig } from '../utils';
+import { getAndRemoveConfig, removeAtag } from '../utils';
 import { slugify } from './slugify';
 
 export const headingCompiler = ({ renderer, router, _self }) =>
   (renderer.code = (text, level) => {
     let { str, config } = getAndRemoveConfig(text);
-    const nextToc = { level, title: str };
+    const nextToc = { level, title: removeAtag(str) };
 
     if (/<!-- {docsify-ignore} -->/g.test(str)) {
       str = str.replace('<!-- {docsify-ignore} -->', '');
-      nextToc.title = str;
+      nextToc.title = removeAtag(str);
       nextToc.ignoreSubHeading = true;
     }
 
     if (/{docsify-ignore}/g.test(str)) {
       str = str.replace('{docsify-ignore}', '');
-      nextToc.title = str;
+      nextToc.title = removeAtag(str);
       nextToc.ignoreSubHeading = true;
     }
 
     if (/<!-- {docsify-ignore-all} -->/g.test(str)) {
       str = str.replace('<!-- {docsify-ignore-all} -->', '');
-      nextToc.title = str;
+      nextToc.title = removeAtag(str);
       nextToc.ignoreAllSubs = true;
     }
 
     if (/{docsify-ignore-all}/g.test(str)) {
       str = str.replace('{docsify-ignore-all}', '');
-      nextToc.title = str;
+      nextToc.title = removeAtag(str);
       nextToc.ignoreAllSubs = true;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/core/render/utils.js b/src/core/render/utils.js
index 100d595cd..bd892c653 100644
--- a/src/core/render/utils.js
+++ b/src/core/render/utils.js
@@ -38,3 +38,13 @@ export function getAndRemoveConfig(str = '') {
 
   return { str, config };
 }
+
+/**
+ * Remove the <a> tag from sidebar when the header with link, details see issue 1069
+ * @param {string}   str   The string to deal with.
+ *
+ * @return {string}   str   The string after delete the <a> element.
+ */
+export function removeAtag(str = '') {
+  return str.replace(/(<\/?a.*?>)/gi, '');
+}
diff --git a/test/unit/render-util.test.js b/test/unit/render-util.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3a82a0f9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/render-util.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+const { removeAtag } = require(`${SRC_PATH}/core/render/utils`);
+
+// Suite
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+describe('core/render/utils', () => {
+  // removeAtag()
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  describe('removeAtag()', () => {
+    test('removeAtag from a link', () => {
+      const result = removeAtag('<a href="www.example.com">content</a>');
+
+      expect(result).toEqual('content');
+    });
+  });
+});