CSS to format a textarea column in an SQL report

I'm using the following CSS class called "fixed" to format a multi-line column (textarea) in a standard SQL report (Column Formatting Attribute: CSS Class). Each row is now hard coded to a height of 40px or about 4 rows with a scrol bar. If the row has no data in it I'd like to default the row to a height of 1. Is it possible to do that?
<style type="text/css">
.fixed {display:inline-block; width:150px; height:40px; overflow-y:scroll; font-size:9px;}
</style>
regards
PaulP

PaulP wrote:
I'm using the following CSS class called "fixed" to format a multi-line column (textarea) in a standard SQL report (Column Formatting Attribute: CSS Class). Each row is now hard coded to a height of 40px or about 4 rows with a scrol bar. If the row has no data in it I'd like to default the row to a height of 1. Is it possible to do that?
<style type="text/css">
.fixed {display:inline-block; width:150px; height:40px; overflow-y:scroll; font-size:9px;}
</style>Try <tt>max-height:40px</tt> instead.
For a less speculative response, provide complete information on the environment and any restrictions therein:
<li>Full APEX version
<li>Full DB version and edition
<li>Web server architecture (EPG, OHS or APEX listener)
<li>Browser(s) and version(s) used
<li>Theme
<li>Template(s)
<li>Region type(s)
and a reproduction of the issue on apex.oracle.com that we can experiment with.
Is this just to limit the size of an actual report or is the <tt>textarea</tt> editable within a tabular form ? If the former I'd just use a <tt>div</tt>...

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