272577 - Text input cursor disappeared when a input control has CSS propertie "position" set to "absolute" and is above a DIV with CSS propertie "overflow" set to "auto" or "scroll"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167801

(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

Description

[Lan Yufeng]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0RC1 StumbleUpon/1.992 (Debian package 1.0-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041119 Firefox/1.0RC1 StumbleUpon/1.992 (Debian package 1.0-3)

If a div containing a input control is positioned absolutely, and next div has
CSS "overflow" propertie set to "auto" or "scroll" and has larger display area
than the previous div, then you can't see the blinking text input cursor when
you click in the input control.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open attached HTML file in browser.
2. Use mouse to click the input control to input some text.

Actual Results:  
no blinking text input cursor.

Expected Results:  
User should see a blinking cursor indicating the input control is in text edit mode.

Comment 1

[Lan Yufeng]

Attachment: showcase of bug #272577

HTML file shows the error of no blinking cursor in input control.

Comment 2

[Lan Yufeng]

Adjusting layer position with z-index property wouldn't resolve this bug. (eg.
set first DIV with a positive z-index, next DIV with a empty or negative z-index.)

Opera 7 on windows 2k has proper rendering. IE does display the cursor.

Comment 3

[Micha³ Piaskowski]

Bug reproduced on Windows with Mozilla nightlybuild id:2004120106

Comment 4

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Through bug 216353...

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