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Blinking cursor outside of text boxes?

 
 
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      6th Oct 2009
After some PC problems that have finally be sorted ive noticed that my blinking cursor now appears when I click on a non editable part of a webpage... The blinking cursor should, and used to, only appear when you click inside an editable text box like a chat window but now it appears wherever I click and is very annoying!

I can't seem to find how to prevent this, does anyone know?

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      6th Oct 2009
Hi,

Am I right in thinking the problem happens in IE ? , if so what version are your running ?

 
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No, the problem is happening in the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, sorry should have mentioned that.
 
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Not to worry.

I'm not a user of Firefox, but I know there is a feature in IE8 called 'Caret Browsing' which allows you to select text using your keyboard. Which when turned on, gives you the really annoying blinking cursor. Have a look through your options in Firefox to see if this is an option. In IE you can just press F7 which enables/disables it, you could also try that.

Probably a long shot to be honest...

 
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Hehe, pressing F7 worked! Thank you very much
 
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Jolly good, Glad it's solved the problem.

 
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