diff --git a/contrib/auto-render/README.md b/contrib/auto-render/README.md
index 31d4da51..94f13f41 100644
--- a/contrib/auto-render/README.md
+++ b/contrib/auto-render/README.md
@@ -83,8 +83,11 @@ in addition to two auto-render-specific keys:
 
 - `ignoredTags`: This is a list of DOM node types to ignore when recursing
   through. The default value is
-  `["script", "noscript", "style", "textarea", "pre", "code"]`.
+  `["script", "noscript", "style", "textarea", "pre", "code"]`. 
+  
+- `errorCallback`: A callback method returning a message and an error stack
+  in case of an critical error during rendering. The default uses `console.error`.
 
 Note that the `displayMode` property of the options object is ignored, and is 
 instead taken from the `display` key of the corresponding entry in the 
-`delimiters` key.
+`delimiters` key.
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diff --git a/contrib/auto-render/auto-render.js b/contrib/auto-render/auto-render.js
index 5bd14d2e..89bcb109 100644
--- a/contrib/auto-render/auto-render.js
+++ b/contrib/auto-render/auto-render.js
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ const splitWithDelimiters = function(text, delimiters) {
  */
 const renderMathInText = function(text, optionsCopy) {
     const data = splitWithDelimiters(text, optionsCopy.delimiters);
-
     const fragment = document.createDocumentFragment();
 
     for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ const renderMathInText = function(text, optionsCopy) {
                 if (!(e instanceof katex.ParseError)) {
                     throw e;
                 }
-                console.error(
+                optionsCopy.errorCallback(
                     "KaTeX auto-render: Failed to parse `" + data[i].data +
                     "` with ",
                     e
@@ -85,6 +84,10 @@ const defaultAutoRenderOptions = {
     ignoredTags: [
         "script", "noscript", "style", "textarea", "pre", "code",
     ],
+
+    errorCallback: function(msg, err) {
+        console.error(msg, err);
+    },
 };
 
 const renderMathInElement = function(elem, options) {
@@ -93,7 +96,6 @@ const renderMathInElement = function(elem, options) {
     }
 
     const optionsCopy = Object.assign({}, defaultAutoRenderOptions, options);
-
     renderElem(elem, optionsCopy);
 };