diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 5dc9f14968..41ab70604b 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 source "https://rubygems.org"
 
 gem "jekyll", "~> 3.8.6"
-gem "nokogiri", "~> 1.10.4"
 gem "liquid-c"
 
 group :development do
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 0b4f018ddd..90ecb8cfa7 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -47,10 +47,7 @@ GEM
       rb-inotify (~> 0.9, >= 0.9.7)
       ruby_dep (~> 1.2)
     mercenary (0.3.6)
-    mini_portile2 (2.4.0)
     multipart-post (2.1.1)
-    nokogiri (1.10.5)
-      mini_portile2 (~> 2.4.0)
     pathutil (0.16.2)
       forwardable-extended (~> 2.6)
     premonition (2.0.0)
@@ -84,7 +81,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   jekyll-redirect-from
   jekyll-sitemap
   liquid-c
-  nokogiri (~> 1.10.4)
   premonition (~> 2.0.0)
   rake
   tzinfo (~> 1.2)
diff --git a/_plugins/jekyll-table-markdown-attribute.rb b/_plugins/jekyll-table-markdown-attribute.rb
index f06f7e4ce5..663407cbf8 100644
--- a/_plugins/jekyll-table-markdown-attribute.rb
+++ b/_plugins/jekyll-table-markdown-attribute.rb
@@ -1,15 +1,3 @@
-require 'jekyll'
-require 'nokogiri'
-
 Jekyll::Hooks.register [:pages, :documents], :pre_render do |post|
-  doc = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(post.content)
-
-  # Stop if we could't parse with HTML
-  return content unless doc
-
-  doc.css('td').each do |td|
-    td.set_attribute('markdown', 'span')
-  end
-
-  post.content = doc.to_s
+  post.content = post.content.gsub('<td>', '<td markdown="span">')
 end