diff --git a/high-performance-react.org b/high-performance-react.org
index 48e2ba7..1e64bb8 100644
--- a/high-performance-react.org
+++ b/high-performance-react.org
@@ -174,12 +174,10 @@ constructed of. What parts do you see here?
 I see three parts: the name of the tag, the tag's properties, and its
 children.
 
-#+begin_example
 |----------+-----------------------------|
 | name     | 'div', 'h1', 'input'        |
 | props    | 'class', 'type', 'disabled' |
 | children | <h1>, <input>, Hello        |
-#+end_example
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC
 tag name: 'div'
diff --git a/manuscript/fundamentals--building-our-own-react.markua b/manuscript/fundamentals--building-our-own-react.markua
index 2eed65f..1874d8b 100644
--- a/manuscript/fundamentals--building-our-own-react.markua
+++ b/manuscript/fundamentals--building-our-own-react.markua
@@ -40,12 +40,9 @@ To start with we need to create a data structure that both represents a DOM tree
 
 I see three parts: the name of the tag, the tag's properties, and its children. 
 
-```
-|----------+-----------------------------|
 | name     | 'div', 'h1', 'input'        |
 | props    | 'class', 'type', 'disabled' |
 | children | <h1>, <input>, Hello        |
-```
 
 ```
 tag name: 'div'