diff --git a/tpl/template.go b/tpl/template.go
index 2db7c4f79..fc7457e55 100644
--- a/tpl/template.go
+++ b/tpl/template.go
@@ -948,8 +948,14 @@ func Highlight(in interface{}, lang string) template.HTML {
 	return template.HTML(helpers.Highlight(html.UnescapeString(str), lang))
 }
 
+var markdownTrimPrefix = []byte("<p>")
+var markdownTrimSuffix = []byte("</p>\n")
+
 func Markdownify(text string) template.HTML {
-	return template.HTML(helpers.RenderBytes(&helpers.RenderingContext{Content: []byte(text), PageFmt: "markdown"}))
+	m := helpers.RenderBytes(&helpers.RenderingContext{Content: []byte(text), PageFmt: "markdown"})
+	m = bytes.TrimPrefix(m, markdownTrimPrefix)
+	m = bytes.TrimSuffix(m, markdownTrimSuffix)
+	return template.HTML(m)
 }
 
 func refPage(page interface{}, ref, methodName string) template.HTML {
diff --git a/tpl/template_test.go b/tpl/template_test.go
index 20a887b1c..8e99f2fb4 100644
--- a/tpl/template_test.go
+++ b/tpl/template_test.go
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ func TestMarkdownify(t *testing.T) {
 
 	result := Markdownify("Hello **World!**")
 
-	expect := template.HTML("<p>Hello <strong>World!</strong></p>\n")
+	expect := template.HTML("Hello <strong>World!</strong>")
 
 	if result != expect {
 		t.Errorf("Markdownify: got '%s', expected '%s'", result, expect)