diff --git a/__tests__/__snapshots__/disabling-tokenizers.test.js.snap b/__tests__/__snapshots__/disabling-tokenizers.test.js.snap
index 1dabad5d0..47c790eb3 100644
--- a/__tests__/__snapshots__/disabling-tokenizers.test.js.snap
+++ b/__tests__/__snapshots__/disabling-tokenizers.test.js.snap
@@ -67,3 +67,37 @@ Object {
   "type": "root",
 }
 `;
+
+exports[`disableTokenizers: {} disables a block tokenizer 1`] = `
+Object {
+  "children": Array [
+    Object {
+      "children": Array [
+        Object {
+          "type": "text",
+          "value": "#  heading 1",
+        },
+      ],
+      "type": "paragraph",
+    },
+  ],
+  "type": "root",
+}
+`;
+
+exports[`disableTokenizers: {} disables an inline tokenizer 1`] = `
+Object {
+  "children": Array [
+    Object {
+      "children": Array [
+        Object {
+          "type": "text",
+          "value": "\`const js = true\`",
+        },
+      ],
+      "type": "paragraph",
+    },
+  ],
+  "type": "root",
+}
+`;
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diff --git a/__tests__/disabling-tokenizers.test.js b/__tests__/disabling-tokenizers.test.js
index d7b7d63ba..dcf4c8d34 100644
--- a/__tests__/disabling-tokenizers.test.js
+++ b/__tests__/disabling-tokenizers.test.js
@@ -27,3 +27,17 @@ describe('disableTokenizers: "blocks"', () => {
     expect(markdown.mdast(md, opts)).toMatchSnapshot();
   });
 });
+
+describe('disableTokenizers: {}', () => {
+  it('disables a block tokenizer', () => {
+    const opts = { disableTokenizers: { block: ['atxHeading'] } };
+    const md = '# heading 1';
+    expect(markdown.mdast(md, opts)).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+
+  it('disables an inline tokenizer', () => {
+    const opts = { disableTokenizers: { inline: ['code'] } };
+    const md = '`const js = true`';
+    expect(markdown.mdast(md, opts)).toMatchSnapshot();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/docs/tables.md b/docs/tables.md
index f6301f5d8..c7dfa6bf2 100644
--- a/docs/tables.md
+++ b/docs/tables.md
@@ -54,8 +54,22 @@ Tables have been simplified to mirror a more standard implementation. We've also
 .markdown-body .rdmd-table th {}
 .markdown-body .rdmd-table td {}
 ```
-[block:html]
-{
-  "html": "<style>\n  .markdown-body .rdmd-table {\n    --table-text: black;\n    --table-head: #5b1c9f;\n    --table-head-text: white;\n    --table-stripe: #f0eaf7;\n    --table-edges: rgba(34, 5, 64, .5);\n    --table-row: white;\n    \n    --markdown-radius: 3px;\n  }\n</style>"
-}
-[/block]
+
+<style>
+  .markdown-body .rdmd-table {
+    --table-text: black;
+    --table-head: #5b1c9f;
+    --table-head-text: white;
+    --table-stripe: #f0eaf7;
+    --table-edges: rgba(34, 5, 64, .5);
+    --table-row: white;
+  }
+
+  #rdmd-demo .markdown-body .rdmd-table thead tr {
+    box-shadow: none;
+  }
+
+  #rdmd-demo .markdown-body .rdmd-table thead tr th:last-child {
+    box-shadow: none;
+  }
+</style>
diff --git a/options.js b/options.js
index 94ebdd632..5fbac4ee3 100644
--- a/options.js
+++ b/options.js
@@ -77,11 +77,15 @@ const parseOptions = (userOpts = {}) => {
 
   if (opts.disableTokenizers in disableTokenizers) {
     opts = { ...opts, ...disableTokenizers[opts.disableTokenizers] };
-  } else if (opts.disableTokenizers) {
-    throw new Error(
-      `opts.disableTokenizers "${opts.disableTokenizers}" not one of "${Object.keys(disableTokenizers)}"`
-    );
   }
+  // @note: commenting out for now. While doing dev for @readme/editor, I would
+  // like fine-grained control of which tokenizers we are using. We might to
+  // remove that at some point?
+  // } else if (opts.disableTokenizers) {
+  // throw new Error(
+  // `opts.disableTokenizers "${opts.disableTokenizers}" not one of "${Object.keys(disableTokenizers)}"`
+  // );
+  // }
 
   return opts;
 };