diff --git a/frontend/src/components/render-page/hooks/use-on-height-change.ts b/frontend/src/components/render-page/hooks/use-on-height-change.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f1b9b9d6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/render-page/hooks/use-on-height-change.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 The HedgeDoc developers (see AUTHORS file)
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+ */
+import useResizeObserver from '@react-hook/resize-observer'
+import type { RefObject } from 'react'
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react'
+
+/**
+ * Monitors the height of the referenced {@link HTMLElement} and executes the callback on change.
+ *
+ * @param elementRef The reference that contains the element to watch
+ * @param onHeightChange The callback that should be executed if the height changes
+ */
+export const useOnHeightChange = (
+  elementRef: RefObject<HTMLElement>,
+  onHeightChange: undefined | ((value: number) => void)
+): void => {
+  const [rendererSize, setRendererSize] = useState<number>(0)
+  useResizeObserver(elementRef, (entry) => {
+    setRendererSize(entry.contentRect.height)
+  })
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const value = elementRef.current?.clientHeight
+    if (value === undefined) {
+      return
+    }
+    setRendererSize(value)
+  }, [elementRef])
+  useEffect(() => {
+    onHeightChange?.(rendererSize + 1)
+  }, [rendererSize, onHeightChange])
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/render-page/renderers/document/document-markdown-renderer.tsx b/frontend/src/components/render-page/renderers/document/document-markdown-renderer.tsx
index f2104d305..b8e1b6f90 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/render-page/renderers/document/document-markdown-renderer.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/render-page/renderers/document/document-markdown-renderer.tsx
@@ -11,12 +11,13 @@ import { useCalculateLineMarkerPosition } from '../../../markdown-renderer/hooks
 import { useMarkdownExtensions } from '../../../markdown-renderer/hooks/use-markdown-extensions'
 import { MarkdownToReact } from '../../../markdown-renderer/markdown-to-react/markdown-to-react'
 import { useDocumentSyncScrolling } from '../../hooks/sync-scroll/use-document-sync-scrolling'
+import { useOnHeightChange } from '../../hooks/use-on-height-change'
 import { RendererType } from '../../window-post-message-communicator/rendering-message'
 import type { CommonMarkdownRendererProps, HeightChangeRendererProps } from '../common-markdown-renderer-props'
 import { DocumentTocSidebar } from './document-toc-sidebar'
 import styles from './markdown-document.module.scss'
 import useResizeObserver from '@react-hook/resize-observer'
-import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react'
+import React, { useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react'
 
 export type DocumentMarkdownRendererProps = CommonMarkdownRendererProps & ScrollProps & HeightChangeRendererProps
 
@@ -41,11 +42,7 @@ export const DocumentMarkdownRenderer: React.FC<DocumentMarkdownRendererProps> =
   newLinesAreBreaks
 }) => {
   const rendererRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null)
-  const [rendererSize, setRendererSize] = useState<DOMRectReadOnly>()
-  useResizeObserver(rendererRef.current, (entry) => {
-    setRendererSize(entry.contentRect)
-  })
-  useEffect(() => onHeightChange?.((rendererSize?.height ?? 0) + 1), [rendererSize, onHeightChange])
+  useOnHeightChange(rendererRef, onHeightChange)
 
   const internalDocumentRenderPaneRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null)
   const [internalDocumentRenderPaneSize, setInternalDocumentRenderPaneSize] = useState<DOMRectReadOnly>()
@@ -74,7 +71,7 @@ export const DocumentMarkdownRenderer: React.FC<DocumentMarkdownRendererProps> =
 
   return (
     <div
-      className={`${styles['markdown-document']} vh-100 bg-light`}
+      className={`${styles['markdown-document']} vh-100`}
       ref={internalDocumentRenderPaneRef}
       onScroll={onUserScroll}
       data-scroll-element={true}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/render-page/renderers/simple/simple-markdown-renderer.tsx b/frontend/src/components/render-page/renderers/simple/simple-markdown-renderer.tsx
index 1ab40b7b3..258f10895 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/render-page/renderers/simple/simple-markdown-renderer.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/render-page/renderers/simple/simple-markdown-renderer.tsx
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
 import { cypressId } from '../../../../utils/cypress-attribute'
 import { useMarkdownExtensions } from '../../../markdown-renderer/hooks/use-markdown-extensions'
 import { MarkdownToReact } from '../../../markdown-renderer/markdown-to-react/markdown-to-react'
+import { useOnHeightChange } from '../../hooks/use-on-height-change'
 import { RendererType } from '../../window-post-message-communicator/rendering-message'
 import type { CommonMarkdownRendererProps, HeightChangeRendererProps } from '../common-markdown-renderer-props'
-import useResizeObserver from '@react-hook/resize-observer'
-import React, { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react'
+import React, { useRef } from 'react'
 
 export type SimpleMarkdownRendererProps = CommonMarkdownRendererProps & HeightChangeRendererProps
 
@@ -28,11 +28,7 @@ export const SimpleMarkdownRenderer: React.FC<SimpleMarkdownRendererProps> = ({
   newLinesAreBreaks
 }) => {
   const rendererRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null)
-  const [rendererSize, setRendererSize] = useState<DOMRectReadOnly>()
-  useResizeObserver(rendererRef.current, (entry) => {
-    setRendererSize(entry.contentRect)
-  })
-  useEffect(() => onHeightChange?.((rendererSize?.height ?? 0) + 1), [rendererSize, onHeightChange])
+  useOnHeightChange(rendererRef, onHeightChange)
   const extensions = useMarkdownExtensions(baseUrl, RendererType.SIMPLE, [])
 
   return (