# Menu items won't click if over a text area

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-items-wont-click-if-over-a-text-area/57504>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Tags:** menu, elements\
**Created:** [September 2, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-items-wont-click-if-over-a-text-area/57504 "2026-09-02T18:44:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![SalfordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SalfordMan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/SalfordMan)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-items-wont-click-if-over-a-text-area/57504/1 "2026-09-02T18:44:00Z")

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The menu drops down 7 items. If it is over a text area then the bottom two are sort of faded and don’t work, the rest are fine. If the menu is just over background then it works fine.

I’ve looked at support and I’ve set the Z-value to 31 and isolated to ‘isolate’, but it makes no difference.

Short video here:

[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/lpmmaiub4dmjd29lhswb2/ElementsMenuIssue.mp4?rlkey=okt04nwdt7z6d04eteyexqnwl&dl=0&raw=1](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/lpmmaiub4dmjd29lhswb2/ElementsMenuIssue.mp4?rlkey=okt04nwdt7z6d04eteyexqnwl&dl=0&raw=1)

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-items-wont-click-if-over-a-text-area/57504/2 "2026-09-03T06:49:01Z")

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Hi @SalfordMan

that’s a typical layering issue in CSS. If you can share your project with us I’ll take a look 😊

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**Author:** ![SalfordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@SalfordMan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/SalfordMan)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-items-wont-click-if-over-a-text-area/57504/3 "2026-09-03T11:08:32Z")

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Hi

How should I get it to you?

dropbox link?

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/menu-items-wont-click-if-over-a-text-area/57504/4 "2026-09-04T08:08:59Z")

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