Hidden FreeTextBox bug on Firefox

Question

I have a problem with the FreeTextBox rich Text Editor in my ASP.NET site. The problem occurs when I access the site with firefox, and I have a freetextbox instance in a hidden div. The hidden div might also be an AJAX Tab Panel. The actual problem is that when the page loads it throws an uncaught exception (firebug shows the StoreHtml() function) and halts the postback!!

Is anywhere of the problem and a solution for it??

Thanks

Answer 1

I recently met a similar problem with jQuery UI tabs. What you need to do is to change the CSS for hidden tabs to something like:

.hiddentab
{
     position: absolute;
     left: -99999999999999;
}

This puts hidden tabs far to the left, and in absolute position mode this does not cause horizontal scroll bars to appear. When the tab is shown, simply remove the hiddentab class from the tab element.

This will work if the problem is related to Firefox' odd behavior with display: none.