Re: Rendering labels within text fields

Are you positioning the elements? z-index only works on positioned
elements (position:absolute, position:relative, or position:fixed)

On 30 mar, 04:42, David Pinn <dp...@byandlarge.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to render labels inside text fields. When the user begins
> typing, the labels fade away and become invisible.To accomplish this,
> I'm giving the TextBox widgets 'background: none; z-index: 10'; and
> I'm rendering the labels behind them with 'background: #fff; z-index:
> 1'.
>
> Just incidentally, I got the idea for this fromhttp://www.zurb.com/article/271/making-forms-convert-through-awesome-....
>
> The problem: when I click on a field, if the click happens to land on
> the label, as opposed to an empty space beside the label, the click
> event does not fire and the field does not receive focus.
>
> Do you have any idea why this might be happening? Know how to fix it?
> Alternatively, do you know of a library that might obviate my coding
> this up?

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