Karl, >I wish I could give you some good news, but instead I can only commiserate. >FF 2 had all sorts of problems like that. Try having an absolutely >positioned div overlapping the scrollbar of a div with overflow: scroll. >Ugly. I even recall seeing a cursor in one tab's textarea blinking through >to the currently visible tab. Those problems appear to have been fixed in >FF3.
FF3 works as expected. I know FF2 has a few bizarre issues like this, but I just thought placing a div overlay over an input field was common enough that there might be a fix for the issue. -Dan