diff --git a/src/Tokenizer.js b/src/Tokenizer.js
index eb42793c9b..2efb3b7ea7 100644
--- a/src/Tokenizer.js
+++ b/src/Tokenizer.js
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ export class Tokenizer {
         type: 'table',
         header: splitCells(cap[1]).map(c => { return { text: c }; }),
         align: cap[2].replace(/^ *|\| *$/g, '').split(/ *\| */),
-        rows: cap[3] ? cap[3].replace(/\n[ \t]*$/, '').split('\n') : []
+        rows: cap[3] && cap[3].trim() ? cap[3].replace(/\n[ \t]*$/, '').split('\n') : []
       };
 
       if (item.header.length === item.align.length) {
diff --git a/test/specs/new/tab_newline.html b/test/specs/new/tab_newline.html
index 77e5010172..8ff7040210 100644
--- a/test/specs/new/tab_newline.html
+++ b/test/specs/new/tab_newline.html
@@ -36,3 +36,10 @@
 </table>
 <pre><code>code
 </code></pre>
+<table>
+    <thead>
+    <tr>
+        <th>y</th>
+    </tr>
+    </thead>
+</table>
diff --git a/test/specs/new/tab_newline.md b/test/specs/new/tab_newline.md
index 5058d77d54..395b42b5d8 100644
--- a/test/specs/new/tab_newline.md
+++ b/test/specs/new/tab_newline.md
@@ -9,4 +9,7 @@
 | y |
 | - |
 | x |
-    code
\ No newline at end of file
+    code
+| y |
+| - |
+ 
\ No newline at end of file