256020 - Caret of input and textboxes invisible due to z-index

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167801

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Thomas Thomassen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nb-NO; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nb-NO; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

In the page, refered at the URL provided, the text caret is hidden by the
underlying div. This happend even though the div containing the input elements
have a higher z-index than the underlying div element.
Seen in Firefox 0.9.3 and Mozilla 1.7.2.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Assign a fixed position to a div using CSS
2. Give the div a z-index of 0
3. Make another div element with some child input elements
4. Give this div element a higher z-index and a position of "relative or
absolute" (in order for the z-index to have any effect)
Actual Results:  
The input elements (and textarea) does not display any caret.

Expected Results:  
Display the caret.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is already filed...

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167801 ***