diff --git a/bower.json b/bower.json
index 5cc6524..6eaa945 100644
--- a/bower.json
+++ b/bower.json
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
     "keymaster": "madrobby/keymaster",
     "ace-builds": "~1.2.3",
     "parsleyjs": "~2.3.10",
-    "marked": "~0.3.2",
+    "markdown-it": "~7.0.0",
+    "markdown-it-anchor": "https://wzrd.in/standalone/markdown-it-anchor@2.5.0",
     "js-yaml": "~3.6.0",
     "store-js": "~1.3.16",
     "bootswatch-dist": "3.3.6-flatly",
diff --git a/realms/__init__.py b/realms/__init__.py
index 5a515be..273e277 100644
--- a/realms/__init__.py
+++ b/realms/__init__.py
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ assets.register('main.js',
                 'vendor/components-bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js',
                 'vendor/handlebars/handlebars.js',
                 'vendor/js-yaml/dist/js-yaml.js',
-                'vendor/marked/lib/marked.js',
+                'vendor/markdown-it/dist/markdown-it.js',
+                'vendor/markdown-it-anchor/index.0',
                 'js/html-sanitizer-minified.js',  # don't minify?
                 'vendor/highlightjs/highlight.pack.js',
                 'vendor/parsleyjs/dist/parsley.js',
diff --git a/realms/static/js/mdr.js b/realms/static/js/mdr.js
index 445b425..a776496 100644
--- a/realms/static/js/mdr.js
+++ b/realms/static/js/mdr.js
@@ -38,15 +38,28 @@ var metaMarked = function(src, opt, callback) {
   }
 };
 
-marked.setOptions({
-  renderer: new marked.Renderer(),
-  gfm: true,
-  tables: true,
-  breaks: false,
-  pedantic: false,
-  sanitize: false,
-  smartLists: true,
-  smartypants: false
+var markdownit = window.markdownit({
+  html: true,
+  linkify: true,
+  typographer: true,
+  highlight: function (str, lang) {
+    if (lang && hljs.getLanguage(lang)) {
+      try {
+        return hljs.highlight(lang, str).value;
+      } catch (__) {
+      }
+    }
+
+    return ''; // use external default escaping
+  }
+}).use(markdownItAnchor, {
+  level: 1,
+  // slugify: string => string,
+  permalink: false,
+  // renderPermalink: (slug, opts, state, permalink) => {},
+  permalinkClass: 'header-anchor',
+  permalinkSymbol: '¶',
+  permalinkBefore: false
 });
 
 // Markdown Renderer
@@ -54,9 +67,8 @@ var MDR = {
   meta: null,
   md: null,
   sanitize: true, // Override
-  renderer: new marked.Renderer(),
   parse: function(md){
-    return marked(md, { renderer: this.renderer });
+    return markdownit.render(md);
   },
   convert: function(md, sanitize) {
     if (this.sanitize !== null) {
@@ -108,13 +120,8 @@ var MDR = {
   }
 };
 
-MDR.renderer.table = function(header, body) {
-  return '<table class="table table-bordered">\n'
-    + '<thead>\n'
-    + header
-    + '</thead>\n'
-    + '<tbody>\n'
-    + body
-    + '</tbody>\n'
-    + '</table>\n';
-};
\ No newline at end of file
+// Add some custom classes to table tags
+markdownit.renderer.rules.table_open = function (tokens, idx, options, env, self) {
+  tokens[idx].attrPush(['class', 'table table-bordered']);
+  return self.renderToken(tokens, idx, options);
+};