diff --git a/tests/roots/test-latex-contents-topic-sidebar/conf.py b/tests/roots/test-latex-contents-topic-sidebar/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/tests/roots/test-latex-contents-topic-sidebar/index.rst b/tests/roots/test-latex-contents-topic-sidebar/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d47e867f64d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/roots/test-latex-contents-topic-sidebar/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+test-contents-et-al
+===================
+
+.. contents::
+
+test-topic
+----------
+
+.. topic:: Title of topic
+
+   text of topic
+
+test-sidebar
+------------
+
+.. sidebar:: Title of sidebar
+   :subtitle: sub-title
+
+   text of sidebar
diff --git a/tests/test_builders/test_build_latex.py b/tests/test_builders/test_build_latex.py
index fb0f1bf4c57..0b79a826f93 100644
--- a/tests/test_builders/test_build_latex.py
+++ b/tests/test_builders/test_build_latex.py
@@ -2272,3 +2272,33 @@ def test_latex_rubric(app):
     content = (app.outdir / 'test.tex').read_text(encoding='utf8')
     assert r'\subsubsection*{This is a rubric}' in content
     assert r'\subsection*{A rubric with a heading level 2}' in content
+
+
+@pytest.mark.sphinx('latex', testroot='latex-contents-topic-sidebar')
+def test_latex_contents_topic_sidebar(app):
+    app.build()
+    result = (app.outdir / 'projectnamenotset.tex').read_text(encoding='utf8')
+
+    assert (
+        '\\begin{sphinxcontents}\n'
+        '\\sphinxstylecontentstitle{Contents}\n'
+    ) in result
+
+    assert (
+        '\\begin{sphinxtopic}\n'
+        '\\sphinxstyletopictitle{Title of topic}\n'
+        '\n'
+        '\\sphinxAtStartPar\n'
+        'text of topic\n'
+        '\\end{sphinxtopic}\n'
+    ) in result
+
+    assert (
+        '\\begin{sphinxsidebar}\n'
+        '\\sphinxstylesidebartitle{Title of sidebar}\n'
+        '\\sphinxstylesidebarsubtitle{sub\\sphinxhyphen{}title}\n'
+        '\n'
+        '\\sphinxAtStartPar\n'
+        'text of sidebar\n'
+        '\\end{sphinxsidebar}\n'
+    ) in result