diff --git a/extensions/markdown-language-features/src/features/previewContentProvider.ts b/extensions/markdown-language-features/src/features/previewContentProvider.ts
index 6d86de5351f..1ab1ea1b028 100644
--- a/extensions/markdown-language-features/src/features/previewContentProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/markdown-language-features/src/features/previewContentProvider.ts
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ export class MarkdownContentProvider {
 					data-strings="${escapeAttribute(JSON.stringify(previewStrings))}"
 					data-state="${escapeAttribute(JSON.stringify(state || {}))}">
 				<script src="${this.extensionResourcePath(resourceProvider, 'pre.js')}" nonce="${nonce}"></script>
-				${this.getStyles(resourceProvider, sourceUri, config, state)}
+				${this.getStyles(resourceProvider, sourceUri, config)}
 				<base href="${resourceProvider.asWebviewUri(markdownDocument.uri)}">
 			</head>
 			<body class="vscode-body ${config.scrollBeyondLastLine ? 'scrollBeyondLastLine' : ''} ${config.wordWrap ? 'wordWrap' : ''} ${config.markEditorSelection ? 'showEditorSelection' : ''}">
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ export class MarkdownContentProvider {
 				${this.getScripts(resourceProvider, nonce)}
 			</body>
 			</html>`;
+
 		return {
 			html,
 			containingImages: body.containingImages,
@@ -180,30 +181,14 @@ export class MarkdownContentProvider {
 		].join(' ');
 	}
 
-	private getImageStabilizerStyles(state?: any) {
-		let ret = '<style>\n';
-		if (state && state.imageInfo) {
-			state.imageInfo.forEach((imgInfo: any) => {
-				ret += `#${imgInfo.id}.loading {
-					height: ${imgInfo.height}px;
-					width: ${imgInfo.width}px;
-				}\n`;
-			});
-		}
-		ret += '</style>\n';
-
-		return ret;
-	}
-
-	private getStyles(resourceProvider: WebviewResourceProvider, resource: vscode.Uri, config: MarkdownPreviewConfiguration, state?: any): string {
+	private getStyles(resourceProvider: WebviewResourceProvider, resource: vscode.Uri, config: MarkdownPreviewConfiguration): string {
 		const baseStyles: string[] = [];
 		for (const resource of this.contributionProvider.contributions.previewStyles) {
 			baseStyles.push(`<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${escapeAttribute(resourceProvider.asWebviewUri(resource))}">`);
 		}
 
 		return `${baseStyles.join('\n')}
-			${this.computeCustomStyleSheetIncludes(resourceProvider, resource, config)}
-			${this.getImageStabilizerStyles(state)}`;
+			${this.computeCustomStyleSheetIncludes(resourceProvider, resource, config)}`;
 	}
 
 	private getScripts(resourceProvider: WebviewResourceProvider, nonce: string): string {
