FireFox 1.0.7 and earlier have a problem in which a horizontal scroll box can popup and obscure a textarea so that a user cannot see the contents of the text area. This has been reported as Bug ID 287297.

In the example below, enter a string of caracters (no spaces) until the edit box is completely filled. Typing additional characters will cause the horizontal scroll bar to pop up and block the edit box.

Using FireFox 1.0.7 (and earlier), the textarea looks like this when the text exceeds the viewable area.


Using IE 6, this textarea gets a vertical scroll bar rather than a horizontal scroll bar and the view is not obstructed.


The html for producing this is as follows:
<form>
<textarea style="width:468px; height:24px; " cols="64" rows="1" wrap="virtual"></textarea>
</form>