Galleria Fatal error: Could not extract a stage height from the CSS. Traced height: 0px

If I have the line <style type="text/css"></style> , even though it is blank, Galleria throws the error message "Fatal error: Could not extract a stage height from the CSS. Traced height: 0px."

It would appear that even though I'm telling galleria to use a height of 300 via:

$('#galleria').galleria({ 
width: 300, 
height: 300, 
transition: 'fade' 
}); 

it tries to first determine the height and the CSS line is confusing it, so it throws this error. If I remove that one line, no more error.

Is there anyway I can still use <style type="text/css"></style>? we use it to customize the look and feel of our site based on the customer using it.