Can the product of a nonzero principal ideal and a non-principal ideal become a principal ideal in a ring of algebraic integers?

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Let $F$ be a number field and $\mathcal O_F$ be its ring of algebraic integers.

Let $(a)$ be a nonzero principal ideal in $\mathcal O_F$ and $I$ be a nonprincipal ideal in $\mathcal O_F$. Note they are just ordinary ideals (ideals that are literally contained in $\mathcal O_F$), not fractional ideals. I wonder if the product $(a)I$ is necessarily non-principal.

More generally one could ask if $IJ$ is a principal ideal in $\mathcal O_F$ then $I$ and $J$ are both principal.


If this is true then I guess this might be true in a more general setting (integral domain ?), so please feel free to point it out if so.