Section without content?

I’m trying to set up a section with a background image, but no text, no images, no content. Everything works fine except that since I have no content, the message “add content” appears in the box. It’s causing a few problems, since I’d also like to control aspect ratio of the section using padding bottom (background:cover and padding-bottom:ratio%) but the nested content box gets added into the total height throwing off the calculation. Is there any way to prevent Tailor from removing my section when I remove the inner content box?