diff --git a/ReactNativeClient/lib/MdToHtml.js b/ReactNativeClient/lib/MdToHtml.js
index f838558ce..f41e78d7f 100644
--- a/ReactNativeClient/lib/MdToHtml.js
+++ b/ReactNativeClient/lib/MdToHtml.js
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ class MdToHtml {
 				openTag = null;
 			} else if (isInlineCode) {
 				openTag = null;
+			} else if (tag && t.type.indexOf('html_inline') >= 0) {
+				openTag = null;
 			} else if (tag && t.type.indexOf('_open') >= 0) {
 				openTag = tag;
 			} else if (tag && t.type.indexOf('_close') >= 0) {
@@ -266,6 +268,8 @@ class MdToHtml {
 			if (t.type === 'image') {
 				if (tokenContent) attrs.push(['title', tokenContent]);
 				output.push(this.renderImage_(attrs, options));
+			} else if (t.type === 'html_inline') {
+				output.push(t.content);
 			} else if (t.type === 'softbreak') {
 				output.push('<br/>');
 			} else if (t.type === 'hr') {
@@ -351,6 +355,7 @@ class MdToHtml {
 		const md = new MarkdownIt({
 			breaks: true,
 			linkify: true,
+			html: true,
 		});
 
 		// This is currently used only so that the $expression$ and $$\nexpression\n$$ blocks are translated
diff --git a/ReactNativeClient/lib/import-enex-md-gen.js b/ReactNativeClient/lib/import-enex-md-gen.js
index c7cf6e343..e0e78ea91 100644
--- a/ReactNativeClient/lib/import-enex-md-gen.js
+++ b/ReactNativeClient/lib/import-enex-md-gen.js
@@ -617,10 +617,6 @@ function enexXmlToMdArray(stream, resources) {
 	});
 }
 
-function removeTableCellNewLines(cellText) {
-	return cellText.replace(/\n+/g, " ");
-}
-
 function tableHasSubTables(table) {
 	for (let trIndex = 0; trIndex < table.lines.length; trIndex++) {
 		const tr = table.lines[trIndex];
@@ -689,8 +685,9 @@ function drawTable(table) {
 				line.push(BLOCK_CLOSE);
 			} else { // Regular table rendering
 
-				// A cell in a Markdown table cannot have new lines so remove them
-				const cellText = removeTableCellNewLines(processMdArrayNewLines(td.lines));
+				// A cell in a Markdown table cannot have actual new lines so replace
+				// them with <br>, which are supported by the markdown renderers.
+				const cellText = processMdArrayNewLines(td.lines).replace(/\n+/g, "<br>");
 
 				const width = Math.max(cellText.length, 3);
 				line.push(stringPadding(cellText, width, ' ', stringPadding.RIGHT));