Can't Type/Post in Forms in Safari :(

I use my iPhone to teach for the University of Phoenix online. We facilitate courses partially through online message boards. As of about a week ago, when I click "Reply" to a message in a thread, the screen loads as normal, but when I tap in the message box, it just blinks --- like I was clicking on a dead hyperlink or something. It no longer gives me a cursor and keyboard.

The phone has worked great up until about a week ago. I've used the same page/features several times without a problem.... until now.

I tried Resetting my phone - twice (that's all the Tech Support lady could suggest) and no dice. Another of my colleagues is having the same problem too, so it's not just a bad phone. I have tried clearing the Cache, History, and Cookies, but no change.

I turned the DeBugging Console on, and got this HTML Error record: "...<input> is not allowed inside <tbody>...".

Any suggestions anyone?

(Note: I have installed 2.0; I have the Edge iPhone, not the new 3G one).

iPhone, Other OS, Edge Network iPhone through AT&T

Posted on Jul 24, 2008 8:24 PM

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Aug 2, 2008 12:10 PM in response to slindiPhone

This is the exact problem I'm researching and for the same reason... University of Phoenix classes I teach.

I've found a partial solution... but it is slightly messy. If you turn off javascript in preferences, under the safari section. It's messy because it fiddles around with the html in your signature line a bit, and will add extra spaces to it, in addition to putting up the code that provides hot links to your email address. The further solution for this is to put up a simple text version of your signature line.

Hope this helps... so far it's a frustrating solution. But you can at least function this way. My fingers are crossed for either another better browser to come out for iPhone or for Apple to improve Safari so that it works.

Good luck!

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