diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/posts.js b/app/assets/javascripts/posts.js
index 25c0fe65a..955587c4a 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/posts.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/posts.js
@@ -6,6 +6,19 @@ const ALLOWED_ATTR = ['id', 'class', 'href', 'title', 'src', 'height', 'width',
   'start', 'dir'];
 
 $(() => {
+  DOMPurify.addHook("uponSanitizeAttribute", (node, event) => {
+    const rowspan = node.getAttribute("rowspan");
+    const colspan = node.getAttribute("colspan");
+
+    if (rowspan && Number.isNaN(+rowspan)) {
+      event.keepAttr = false;
+    }
+
+    if (colspan && Number.isNaN(+colspan)) {
+      event.keepAttr = false;
+    }
+  });
+
   const $uploadForm = $('.js-upload-form');
 
   const stringInsert = (str, idx, insert) => str.slice(0, idx) + insert + str.slice(idx);
@@ -149,6 +162,27 @@ $(() => {
           ALLOWED_TAGS,
           ALLOWED_ATTR
         });
+
+        const removedElements = [...new Set(DOMPurify.removed
+          .filter(entry => entry.element && !(entry.element instanceof HTMLBodyElement))
+          .map(entry => entry.element.localName))];
+
+        const removedAttributes = [...new Set(DOMPurify.removed
+          .filter(entry => entry.attribute)
+          .map(entry => [
+            entry.attribute.name + (entry.attribute.value ? `='${entry.attribute.value}'` : ''),
+            entry.from.localName
+          ]))]
+
+        $tgt.parents('form')
+          .find('.rejected-elements')
+          .toggleClass('hide', removedElements.length === 0 && removedAttributes.length === 0)
+          .find('ul')
+          .empty()
+          .append(
+            removedElements.map(name => $(`<li><code>&lt;${name}&gt;</code></li>`)),
+            removedAttributes.map(([attr, elName]) => $(`<li><code>${attr}</code> (in <code>&lt;${elName}&gt;</code>)</li>`)));
+
         $tgt.parents('.form-group').siblings('.post-preview').html(html);
         $tgt.parents('form').find('.js-post-html[name="__html"]').val(html + '<!-- g: js, mdit -->');
       }, 0);
diff --git a/app/views/posts/_form.html.erb b/app/views/posts/_form.html.erb
index 47a8eaf77..92a345698 100644
--- a/app/views/posts/_form.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/posts/_form.html.erb
@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@
   <%= render 'shared/body_field', f: f, field_name: :body_markdown, field_label: t('posts.body_label'), post: post,
              min_length: min_body_length(category), max_length: max_body_length(category) %>
 
+  <div class="rejected-elements notice is-warning hide">
+    <h3>Unsupported HTML detected</h3>
+    <p>The following HTML tags and attributes are unsupported and will be removed from the final post:</p>
+    <ul>
+    </ul>
+    <p>For a list of allowed HTML, see <a href="/help/advanced-formatting">this help article</a>.
+    If you meant to display the tags as code in the post, please enclose them in a code block.</p>
+  </div>
   <div class="post-preview"></div>
 
   <% unless post_type.has_parent? %>