diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index b66c2cf..6cee227 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -177,9 +177,23 @@ import {stringify as spaces} from 'space-separated-tokens'
 import styleToObject from 'style-to-object'
 import {pointStart} from 'unist-util-position'
 import {VFileMessage} from 'vfile-message'
+import {whitespace} from 'hast-util-whitespace'
 
 const own = {}.hasOwnProperty
 
+// `react-dom` triggers a warning for *any* white space in tables.
+// To follow GFM, `mdast-util-to-hast` injects line endings between elements.
+// Other tools might do so too, but they don’t do here, so we remove all of
+// that.
+
+// See: <https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/7081>.
+// See: <https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/7515>.
+// See: <https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-react/issues/64>.
+// See: <https://github.com/rehypejs/rehype-react/pull/29>.
+// See: <https://github.com/rehypejs/rehype-react/pull/32>.
+// See: <https://github.com/rehypejs/rehype-react/pull/45>.
+const tableElements = new Set(['table', 'thead', 'tbody', 'tfoot', 'tr'])
+
 /**
  * Transform a hast tree to preact, react, solid, svelte, vue, etc.,
  * with an automatic JSX runtime.
@@ -272,14 +286,21 @@ function one(state, node, key) {
       state.schema = schema
     }
 
-    const children = createChildren(state, node)
+    let children = createChildren(state, node)
     const props = createProperties(state, node)
+    let type = state.Fragment
 
-    let type = node.type === 'root' ? state.Fragment : node.tagName
+    if (node.type === 'element') {
+      if (tableElements.has(node.tagName)) {
+        children = children.filter((child) => !whitespace(child))
+      }
 
-    if (typeof type === 'string' && own.call(state.components, type)) {
-      const key = /** @type {keyof JSX.IntrinsicElements} */ (type)
-      type = state.components[key]
+      if (own.call(state.components, node.tagName)) {
+        const key = /** @type {keyof JSX.IntrinsicElements} */ (node.tagName)
+        type = state.components[key]
+      } else {
+        type = node.tagName
+      }
     }
 
     props.children = children
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index aec48e7..8e6473b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
     "@types/hast": "^2.0.0",
     "@types/unist": "^2.0.0",
     "comma-separated-tokens": "^2.0.0",
+    "hast-util-whitespace": "^2.0.0",
     "property-information": "^6.0.0",
     "space-separated-tokens": "^2.0.0",
     "style-to-object": "^0.4.1",
diff --git a/test/index.js b/test/index.js
index efc97fd..cd0d728 100644
--- a/test/index.js
+++ b/test/index.js
@@ -401,3 +401,38 @@ test('components', () => {
     'should support class components'
   )
 })
+
+test('react specific: filter whitespace in tables', () => {
+  assert.equal(
+    renderToStaticMarkup(
+      toJsxRuntime(
+        h(null, [
+          h('table', [
+            ' ',
+            h('thead', [
+              ' ',
+              h('tr', [' ', h('th', [' ', h('b', 'a'), ' ']), ' ']),
+              ' '
+            ]),
+            ' ',
+            h('tbody', [
+              ' ',
+              h('tr', [' ', h('td', [' ', h('b', 'b'), ' ']), ' ']),
+              ' '
+            ]),
+            ' ',
+            h('tfoot', [
+              ' ',
+              h('tr', [' ', h('td', [' ', h('b', 'c'), ' ']), ' ']),
+              ' '
+            ]),
+            ' '
+          ])
+        ]),
+        production
+      )
+    ),
+    '<table><thead><tr><th> <b>a</b> </th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td> <b>b</b> </td></tr></tbody><tfoot><tr><td> <b>c</b> </td></tr></tfoot></table>',
+    'should ignore whitespace in `table`, `thead`, `tbody`, `tfoot`, and `tr`'
+  )
+})