diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/compiler/html_tags.ts b/modules/angular2/src/compiler/html_tags.ts
index 5fb4db1b4e..1253b94ae2 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/compiler/html_tags.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/compiler/html_tags.ts
@@ -311,7 +311,6 @@ export class HtmlTagDefinition {
 // This implementation does not fully conform to the HTML5 spec.
 var TAG_DEFINITIONS: {[key: string]: HtmlTagDefinition} = {
   'link': new HtmlTagDefinition({isVoid: true}),
-  'ng-content': new HtmlTagDefinition({isVoid: true}),
   'img': new HtmlTagDefinition({isVoid: true}),
   'input': new HtmlTagDefinition({isVoid: true}),
   'hr': new HtmlTagDefinition({isVoid: true}),
diff --git a/modules/angular2/src/compiler/template_parser.ts b/modules/angular2/src/compiler/template_parser.ts
index 80dd89d1a2..9e4fcd62b0 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/src/compiler/template_parser.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/src/compiler/template_parser.ts
@@ -228,6 +228,11 @@ class TemplateParseVisitor implements HtmlAstVisitor {
         hasInlineTemplates ? null : component.findNgContentIndex(elementCssSelector);
     var parsedElement;
     if (preparsedElement.type === PreparsedElementType.NG_CONTENT) {
+      if (isPresent(element.children) && element.children.length > 0) {
+        this._reportError(
+            `<ng-content> element cannot have content. <ng-content> must be immediately followed by </ng-content>`,
+            element.sourceSpan);
+      }
       parsedElement =
           new NgContentAst(this.ngContentCount++, elementNgContentIndex, element.sourceSpan);
     } else if (isTemplateElement) {
diff --git a/modules/angular2/test/compiler/html_parser_spec.ts b/modules/angular2/test/compiler/html_parser_spec.ts
index 91400e20ac..f851c1ec1c 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/test/compiler/html_parser_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/test/compiler/html_parser_spec.ts
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ export function main() {
         });
 
         it('should tolerate end tags for void elements when they have no content', () => {
-          expect(humanizeDom(parser.parse('<ng-content></ng-content>', 'TestComp')))
-              .toEqual([[HtmlElementAst, 'ng-content', 0]]);
+          expect(humanizeDom(parser.parse('<input></input>', 'TestComp')))
+              .toEqual([[HtmlElementAst, 'input', 0]]);
         });
 
         it('should support optional end tags', () => {
@@ -215,27 +215,27 @@ export function main() {
         });
 
         it('should report text content in void elements', () => {
-          let errors = parser.parse('<ng-content>content</ng-content>', 'TestComp').errors;
+          let errors = parser.parse('<input>content</input>', 'TestComp').errors;
           expect(errors.length).toEqual(1);
           expect(humanizeErrors(errors))
               .toEqual([
                 [
-                  'ng-content',
-                  'Void elements do not have end tags (they can not have content) "ng-content"',
-                  '0:19'
+                  'input',
+                  'Void elements do not have end tags (they can not have content) "input"',
+                  '0:14'
                 ]
               ]);
         });
 
         it('should report html content in void elements', () => {
-          let errors = parser.parse('<ng-content><p></p></ng-content>', 'TestComp').errors;
+          let errors = parser.parse('<input><p></p></input>', 'TestComp').errors;
           expect(errors.length).toEqual(1);
           expect(humanizeErrors(errors))
               .toEqual([
                 [
-                  'ng-content',
-                  'Void elements do not have end tags (they can not have content) "ng-content"',
-                  '0:19'
+                  'input',
+                  'Void elements do not have end tags (they can not have content) "input"',
+                  '0:14'
                 ]
               ]);
         });
diff --git a/modules/angular2/test/compiler/template_parser_spec.ts b/modules/angular2/test/compiler/template_parser_spec.ts
index 36fc5d6e72..574c054e10 100644
--- a/modules/angular2/test/compiler/template_parser_spec.ts
+++ b/modules/angular2/test/compiler/template_parser_spec.ts
@@ -689,6 +689,12 @@ There is no directive with "exportAs" set to "dirA" ("<div [ERROR ->]#a="dirA"><
     });
 
     describe('error cases', () => {
+      it('should report when ng-content has content', () => {
+        expect(() => parse('<ng-content>content</ng-content>', []))
+            .toThrowError(`Template parse errors:
+<ng-content> element cannot have content. <ng-content> must be immediately followed by </ng-content> ("[ERROR ->]<ng-content>content</ng-content>"): TestComp@0:0`);
+      });
+
       it('should report invalid property names', () => {
         expect(() => parse('<div [invalid-prop]></div>', [])).toThrowError(`Template parse errors:
 Can't bind to 'invalidProp' since it isn't a known native property ("<div [ERROR ->][invalid-prop]></div>"): TestComp@0:5`);