diff --git a/dist/tags/base.js b/dist/tags/base.js
index c06eba4..1238cb0 100644
--- a/dist/tags/base.js
+++ b/dist/tags/base.js
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class TagCollection {
         }
     }
     getByName(name) {
-        return this.tags.filter(t => t.constructor.name == name)[0] || undefined;
+        return this.tags.filter(t => { return t.constructor.name == name; })[0] || undefined;
     }
     getByElementName(element) {
         const el = element.toUpperCase();
diff --git a/dist/tokenizer.js b/dist/tokenizer.js
index b8c1f5b..69a46ba 100644
--- a/dist/tokenizer.js
+++ b/dist/tokenizer.js
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class Tokenizer {
         const flushText = () => {
             if (textBuffer.length > 0) {
                 tokens.push({
-                    role: 'block',
+                    role: 'text',
                     value: textBuffer,
                 });
                 textBuffer = '';
@@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ class Tokenizer {
                 && (charAfter === undefined || PUNCTUATION.has(charAfter) || charAfter === '\n');
             const role = leftFlanking ? 'open' : rightFlanking ? 'close' : 'block';
             var token = tag.tokenize(role, sequence, source);
+            if (role == 'block' && !tag.isBlock) {
+                continue;
+            }
             if (token) {
                 return token;
             }
diff --git a/dist/types.d.ts b/dist/types.d.ts
index 28759f7..ea64da5 100644
--- a/dist/types.d.ts
+++ b/dist/types.d.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export type TokenRole = 'open' | 'close' | 'block';
+export type TokenRole = 'open' | 'close' | 'block' | 'text';
 export interface Token {
     role: TokenRole;
     value: string;
diff --git a/src/ts/tokenizer.ts b/src/ts/tokenizer.ts
index 62546ab..ffda494 100644
--- a/src/ts/tokenizer.ts
+++ b/src/ts/tokenizer.ts
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ export class Tokenizer {
         const flushText = () => {
             if (textBuffer.length > 0) {
                 tokens.push({
-                    role: 'block',
+                    role: 'text',
                     value: textBuffer,
                 });
                 textBuffer = '';
@@ -225,6 +225,10 @@ export class Tokenizer {
             const role: TokenRole = leftFlanking ? 'open' : rightFlanking ? 'close' : 'block';
 
             var token: Token | null = tag.tokenize(role, sequence, source);
+
+            if (role == 'block' && !tag.isBlock) {
+                continue;
+            }
             
             if (token) {
                 return token;
diff --git a/src/ts/types.ts b/src/ts/types.ts
index 34ee972..926616e 100644
--- a/src/ts/types.ts
+++ b/src/ts/types.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-export type TokenRole = 'open' | 'close' | 'block';
+export type TokenRole = 'open' | 'close' | 'block' | 'text';
 
 export interface Token {
     role: TokenRole;
diff --git a/test/hopdown.test.ts b/test/hopdown.test.ts
index bb054fa..dd4f463 100644
--- a/test/hopdown.test.ts
+++ b/test/hopdown.test.ts
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ suite('Markdown to HTML Round-Trips', () => {
         assert('Escape sequence \\`', '\\`not code\\`',   '<p>\\`not code\\`</p>');
 
         assert('trailing space', '*i* ', '<p><em>i</em> </p>');
+        assert('no closing delim', '*', '<p>*</p>');
     });
 
 });