diff --git a/assets/js/popover.js b/assets/js/popover.js
index 5fb2244ad..494cd84e1 100644
--- a/assets/js/popover.js
+++ b/assets/js/popover.js
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ function initPopover(baseURL, useContextualBacklinks, renderLatex) {
           el = htmlToElement(popoverElement)
         } else {
           const linkDest = content[li.dataset.src.replace(/\/$/g, "").replace(basePath, "")]
-          console.log(linkDest.content)
           if (linkDest) {
             const popoverElement = `<div class="popover">
     <h3>${linkDest.title}</h3>
@@ -33,25 +32,27 @@ function initPopover(baseURL, useContextualBacklinks, renderLatex) {
             el = htmlToElement(popoverElement)
           }
         }
-        li.appendChild(el)
-        if (renderLatex) {
-          renderMathInElement(el, {
-            delimiters: [
-              { left: '$$', right: '$$', display: false },
-              { left: '$', right: '$', display: false },
-              { left: '\\(', right: '\\)', display: false },
-              { left: '\\[', right: '\\]', display: false }
-            ],
-            throwOnError: false
+
+        if (el) {
+          li.appendChild(el)
+          if (renderLatex) {
+            renderMathInElement(el, {
+              delimiters: [
+                { left: '$$', right: '$$', display: false },
+                { left: '$', right: '$', display: false },
+                { left: '\\(', right: '\\)', display: false },
+                { left: '\\[', right: '\\]', display: false }
+              ],
+              throwOnError: false
+            })
+          }
+          li.addEventListener("mouseover", () => {
+            el.classList.add("visible")
+          })
+          li.addEventListener("mouseout", () => {
+            el.classList.remove("visible")
           })
         }
-        li.addEventListener("mouseover", () => {
-          el.classList.add("visible")
-        })
-        li.addEventListener("mouseout", () => {
-          el.classList.remove("visible")
-        })
-
       })
   })
 }
diff --git a/assets/js/search.js b/assets/js/search.js
index 195a40be5..bb94cd30b 100644
--- a/assets/js/search.js
+++ b/assets/js/search.js
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ const removeMarkdown = (
       .replace(/(#{1,6})\s+(.+)\1?/g, '<b>$2</b>')
       .replace(/\s{0,2}\[.*?\]: .*?$/g, '')
       .replace(/\!\[(.*?)\][\[\(].*?[\]\)]/g, options.useImgAltText ? '$1' : '')
-      .replace(/\[(.*?)\][\[\(].*?[\]\)]/g, '$1')
-      .replace(/!?\[\[\S[^\[\]\|]*(?:\|([^\[\]]*))?\S\]\]/g, '$1')
+      .replace(/\[(.*?)\][\[\(].*?[\]\)]/g, '<a>$1</a>')
+      .replace(/!?\[\[\S[^\[\]\|]*(?:\|([^\[\]]*))?\S\]\]/g, '<a>$1</a>')
       .replace(/^\s{0,3}>\s?/g, '')
       .replace(/(^|\n)\s{0,3}>\s?/g, '\n\n')
       .replace(/^\s{1,2}\[(.*?)\]: (\S+)( ".*?")?\s*$/g, '')
diff --git a/assets/styles/base.scss b/assets/styles/base.scss
index 6378f900e..1b9b936e3 100644
--- a/assets/styles/base.scss
+++ b/assets/styles/base.scss
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ header {
     font-size: 0.8rem;
   }
 
-  & > p {
+  & > p, & > a {
     margin: 0;
     font-weight: 400;
     user-select: none;