diff --git a/src/blocks.c b/src/blocks.c
index f2eeb05e4..64bb7f48c 100644
--- a/src/blocks.c
+++ b/src/blocks.c
@@ -1014,6 +1014,7 @@ static void open_new_blocks(cmark_parser *parser, cmark_node **container,
     } else if (!indented && ((matched = scan_html_block_start(
                                   input, parser->first_nonspace)) ||
                              (cont_type != CMARK_NODE_PARAGRAPH &&
+			      !maybe_lazy &&
                               (matched = scan_html_block_start_7(
                                    input, parser->first_nonspace))))) {
       *container = add_child(parser, *container, CMARK_NODE_HTML_BLOCK,
diff --git a/test/regression.txt b/test/regression.txt
index d77c8f268..f2d293532 100644
--- a/test/regression.txt
+++ b/test/regression.txt
@@ -162,3 +162,23 @@ Issue #334 - UTF-8 BOM
 .
 <h1>Hi</h1>
 ````````````````````````````````
+
+Issue commonmark.js#213 - type 7 blocks can't interrupt
+paragraph
+
+```````````````````````````````` example
+- <script>
+- some text
+some other text
+</script>
+.
+<ul>
+<li>
+<script>
+</li>
+<li>some text
+some other text
+</script></li>
+</ul>
+````````````````````````````````
+