Hi

I've got a testpage, with everything removed except the problem which occurs in Firefox
http://ied.gospelcom.net/tester.php

There is a mouseover popup, which is toggled from hidden to visible by onmouseover on some of the table cells. The CSS for this is
#reportalert {visibility:hidden;}

This is not a javascript problem because it happens with js disabled. I have removed the JS toggle script from this page, so you won't even see this happen.

As soon as I have the div with id="reportalert" anywhere on the page, its presence prevents a cursor appearing in the textarea. It does, in fact, have focus, because you can type in it. But it is disconcerting not to appear to have focus.

It is as if the 'visibility:hidden' of the div somehow leaks out to affect the cursor. I have tried all sort of things, such as putting visibility:visible on the text area, or its whole TD.

Any other ideas I could try?

thanks

Tony

Couple of things:
z-index is useless, it only works on elements that are absolutely or relatively positioned.

You've got JS errors:
toggleDisplay is not defined
onmouseover(mouseover clientX=0, clientY=0)

or.. this is definitely a problem:
line 122 column 1 - Warning: discarding unexpected </div>
line 123 column 1 - Warning: discarding unexpected </div>

Thanks! Well, I have removed all the mouseover stuff, and the extraneous div! But there is still the same behaviour. It is all down to the visibility:hidden being linked to that div.

Take out the div (or change the css to a different div name, even in the FF CSS editor bar, and it works fine!!

However, I think I see the issue. Take out 'position fixed' for the div, and the cursor does work. DOn't know why!

thanks for any other ideas!

Tony