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please fill out this field not disappear on scroll firefox

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Hi everyone,

I have a little problem only on Firefox. For a website, I need to use textarea balise with attribute required. But, when the message "please fill out this field" appear, and when I scroll down/up, the message rest display on the screen.


You can see the error message, and when I scroll down, the message is not stay at the field and this "alert message" follow me along the page

Hi everyone, I have a little problem only on Firefox. For a website, I need to use textarea balise with attribute required. But, when the message "please fill out this field" appear, and when I scroll down/up, the message rest display on the screen. You can see the error message, and when I scroll down, the message is not stay at the field and this "alert message" follow me along the page
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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration or userChrome.css is causing the problem.

  • switch to the DEFAULT theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes
  • do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Safe Mode start window
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Thanks for your help cor-el. Even if I do this, the problem stay. I have tested differents version of Firefox on different computer with the same parameters (default theme, no hardware acceleration) and when I scroll up/down the message of the required field does not deseappare when I'm not on the field ...