since i can't edit the original css proposed solution, i'd like to add that it wouldn't work, so the HTML conditional is really the only one that is workable.

additionally, using an inline class won't work either for the HTML solution, because it can have more than one [code] tag on a page. so the inline 'height=xx' would need to be surrounded by conditional(s) instead to allow for stripping at the output side.

that makes it viable.