Andi Smith on February 26th, 2008

So I discovered this not-so-handy bug in Firefox today related to filling in information into a HTML form. Sometimes when the user is about to enter data, the text entry field’s cursor caret becomes invisible.

It’s a bug I’ve seen before but had just put down to my browser set-up, but today after seeing it happen on a colleague’s machine, I decided to investigate what was actually going on. It turns out I was not alone in having this problem, it is a known bug.

Where have you gone cursor?

Basically, the problem seems to be caused by the scrolling properties of the DIV elements that an input field is contained in. There’s no z-index or cursor CSS fix - instead you need to use one of the two following solutions.

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