[Plugin: byBrick Columns] Unwanted breaks and paragraphs on top of columns

The discussion on this issue started on the previous topic, but since it hasn’t been solved yet, I’ve decided to open a dedicated topic.

As I wrote before, the plugin adds a blank space at the top of the columns it creates. Sometimes the blank is incremental, e.g.: the first column has none, the second has some, the third has some more, and so on.

An analysis of a published page using Firebug shows that the blank space on top of the columns contains either a break (<br>) or an empty paragraph (<p></p>).

While it’s possible to alter the plugin’s CSS with something like:

.post-entry br {
	display:none;
}

…in order to make the intruding break disappear, it is at the cost of having all other breaks in the columns vanish. Sometimes this can be afforded, but it isn’t a real fix to the problem.

Worse still, when the offender is an empty paragraph, the use of something along the lines of:

.post-entry p {
	display:none;
}

…is unthinkable. :/

So, what to do?

P.S.: Here’s a link to the same issue commented on a forum.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bybrick-columns/