diff --git a/src/converter/md.jl b/src/converter/md.jl
index 54d12e122..5dd763997 100644
--- a/src/converter/md.jl
+++ b/src/converter/md.jl
@@ -205,7 +205,14 @@ function form_inter_md(mds::AS, blocks::Vector{<:AbstractBlock},
             if isa(β, OCBlock) && β.name ∈ MD_OCB_IGNORE
                 head = nextind(mds, to(β))
             else
-                write(intermd, INSERT)
+                if isa(β, OCBlock) && β.name ∈ MD_HEADER
+                    # this is a trick to allow whatever follows the title to be
+                    # properly parsed by Markdown.parse; it could otherwise cause
+                    # issues for instance if a table starts immediately after the title
+                    write(intermd, INSERT * "\n ")
+                else
+                    write(intermd, INSERT)
+                end
                 push!(mblocks, β)
                 head = nextind(mds, to(blocks[b_idx]))
             end
diff --git a/test/global/cases2.jl b/test/global/cases2.jl
index ff5d00e81..0823fc40b 100644
--- a/test/global/cases2.jl
+++ b/test/global/cases2.jl
@@ -58,3 +58,23 @@ end
             <p>The end.</p>
             """)
 end
+
+
+@testset "Table" begin
+    st = """
+        A
+
+        ### Title
+
+        No. | Graph | Vertices | Edges
+        :---: | :---------: | :------------: | :-----------------:
+        1 | Twitter Social Circles | 81,306 | 1,342,310
+        2 | Astro-Physics Collaboration | 17,903 | 197,031
+        3 | Facebook Social Circles | 4,039 | 88,234
+
+        C
+        """ * J.EOS
+    st |> seval
+
+    st |> Markdown.parse
+end