310490 - cursor of input field disappears if on top of an absolute positioned div with overflow auto

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 167801

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ivanvriezen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050914 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050914 Firefox/1.6a1

testcase:
http://download.team-fonzie.net/~hautis/bugs/overflowauto_cursor.htmle

If a text input is placed on top of an absolute positioned div, the text cursor
functions properly, as shown in the right example.
However, if the div style is set to "overflow:auto", the cursor is not visible
anymore, as shown in the left example.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://download.team-fonzie.net/~hautis/bugs/overflowauto_cursor.html
2. Select the left text input field.
3. Move the cursor on top of the yellow block using the arrow keys.

Actual Results:  
The text cursor disappears.

Expected Results:  
Show the text cursor.

Comment 1

[ivanvriezen]

Somehow the character e got after the testcase url, should instead be:
http://download.team-fonzie.net/~hautis/bugs/overflowauto_cursor.html

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

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