diff --git a/src/html_preprocessor.py b/src/html_preprocessor.py
index 5962d18..71496f7 100644
--- a/src/html_preprocessor.py
+++ b/src/html_preprocessor.py
@@ -277,6 +277,12 @@ class HTMLPreprocessor:
             tag.string = tag.text.replace('\u200c', '')
             tag['href'] = tag.attrs.get('href').replace('%E2%80%8C', '')
 
+        a_tags_with_href = self.body_tag.find_all('a', {'href': re.compile('^(?!#sdfootnote)')})
+        for tag in a_tags_with_href:
+            tag.string = tag.text.replace('\u200c', '')
+            tag.string = tag.text.replace('\u200b', '')
+            tag['href'] = tag.attrs.get('href').replace('%E2%80%8C', '')
+
     @staticmethod
     def _clean_footnote_content(content):
         content = content.strip()