diff --git a/resources/public/js/pagedown/Markdown.Sanitizer.js b/resources/public/js/pagedown/Markdown.Sanitizer.js
deleted file mode 100644
index cc5826f..0000000
--- a/resources/public/js/pagedown/Markdown.Sanitizer.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-(function () {
-    var output, Converter;
-    if (typeof exports === "object" && typeof require === "function") { // we're in a CommonJS (e.g. Node.js) module
-        output = exports;
-        Converter = require("./Markdown.Converter").Converter;
-    } else {
-        output = window.Markdown;
-        Converter = output.Converter;
-    }
-        
-    output.getSanitizingConverter = function () {
-        var converter = new Converter();
-        converter.hooks.chain("postConversion", sanitizeHtml);
-        converter.hooks.chain("postConversion", balanceTags);
-        return converter;
-    }
-
-    function sanitizeHtml(html) {
-        return html.replace(/<[^>]*>?/gi, sanitizeTag);
-    }
-
-    // (tags that can be opened/closed) | (tags that stand alone)
-    var basic_tag_whitelist = /^(<\/?(b|blockquote|code|del|dd|dl|dt|em|h1|h2|h3|i|kbd|li|ol|p|pre|s|sup|sub|strong|strike|ul)>|<(br|hr)\s?\/?>)$/i;
-    // <a href="url..." optional title>|</a>
-    var a_white = /^(<a\shref="((https?|ftp):\/\/|\/)[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;\(\)]+"(\stitle="[^"<>]+")?\s?>|<\/a>)$/i;
-
-    // <img src="url..." optional width  optional height  optional alt  optional title
-    var img_white = /^(<img\ssrc="(https?:\/\/|\/)[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;\(\)]+"(\swidth="\d{1,3}")?(\sheight="\d{1,3}")?(\salt="[^"<>]*")?(\stitle="[^"<>]*")?\s?\/?>)$/i;
-
-    function sanitizeTag(tag) {
-        if (tag.match(basic_tag_whitelist) || tag.match(a_white) || tag.match(img_white))
-            return tag;
-        else
-            return "";
-    }
-
-    /// <summary>
-    /// attempt to balance HTML tags in the html string
-    /// by removing any unmatched opening or closing tags
-    /// IMPORTANT: we *assume* HTML has *already* been 
-    /// sanitized and is safe/sane before balancing!
-    /// 
-    /// adapted from CODESNIPPET: A8591DBA-D1D3-11DE-947C-BA5556D89593
-    /// </summary>
-    function balanceTags(html) {
-
-        if (html == "")
-            return "";
-
-        var re = /<\/?\w+[^>]*(\s|$|>)/g;
-        // convert everything to lower case; this makes
-        // our case insensitive comparisons easier
-        var tags = html.toLowerCase().match(re);
-
-        // no HTML tags present? nothing to do; exit now
-        var tagcount = (tags || []).length;
-        if (tagcount == 0)
-            return html;
-
-        var tagname, tag;
-        var ignoredtags = "<p><img><br><li><hr>";
-        var match;
-        var tagpaired = [];
-        var tagremove = [];
-        var needsRemoval = false;
-
-        // loop through matched tags in forward order
-        for (var ctag = 0; ctag < tagcount; ctag++) {
-            tagname = tags[ctag].replace(/<\/?(\w+).*/, "$1");
-            // skip any already paired tags
-            // and skip tags in our ignore list; assume they're self-closed
-            if (tagpaired[ctag] || ignoredtags.search("<" + tagname + ">") > -1)
-                continue;
-
-            tag = tags[ctag];
-            match = -1;
-
-            if (!/^<\//.test(tag)) {
-                // this is an opening tag
-                // search forwards (next tags), look for closing tags
-                for (var ntag = ctag + 1; ntag < tagcount; ntag++) {
-                    if (!tagpaired[ntag] && tags[ntag] == "</" + tagname + ">") {
-                        match = ntag;
-                        break;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
-            if (match == -1)
-                needsRemoval = tagremove[ctag] = true; // mark for removal
-            else
-                tagpaired[match] = true; // mark paired
-        }
-
-        if (!needsRemoval)
-            return html;
-
-        // delete all orphaned tags from the string
-
-        var ctag = 0;
-        html = html.replace(re, function (match) {
-            var res = tagremove[ctag] ? "" : match;
-            ctag++;
-            return res;
-        });
-        return html;
-    }
-})();
diff --git a/src-cljs/main.cljs b/src-cljs/main.cljs
index fce91d8..d0cbb18 100644
--- a/src-cljs/main.cljs
+++ b/src-cljs/main.cljs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 (def $dashed-line ($ :#dashed-line))
 
 ; Markdown Converter & Sanitizer instantiation
-(def md-converter (Markdown/getSanitizingConverter))
+(def md-converter (Markdown.Converter.))
 
 ; instantiate & reset a MD5 hash digester
 (def md5 (goog.crypt.Md5.))
diff --git a/src/NoteHub/views/common.clj b/src/NoteHub/views/common.clj
index bd1062d..31c2a50 100644
--- a/src/NoteHub/views/common.clj
+++ b/src/NoteHub/views/common.clj
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@
                      (javascript-tag "var CLOSURE_NO_DEPS = true;")
                      (include-js "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js")
                      (include-js "/js/pagedown/Markdown.Converter.js")
-                     (include-js "/js/pagedown/Markdown.Sanitizer.js")
                      (include-js "/cljs/main.js")))])))
 
 (defn layout