bug? Text field & Button are still visible when solid-filled rectangle is placed on top of them

[Former Community Member]

Adobe Live Cycle 7.1



It cannot work when i tried to make the text field and button invisible without JavaScript:



1. Create a text field with any default value and button.

2. Create a filled color rectangle.

3. Set the rectangle on top of all objects (right click it and select "bring to front")

4. View in Pdf.

5. Result:

Text field's caption and border are invisible (covered by rectangle) ,but the text field's raw value and the button are visible.



Is this a bug?

[Former Community Member]

It's difficult to tell. I can see what you're trying to accomplish but it's possible that Acrobat is giving priority to fillable fields over static objects (such as the rectangle) regardless of z-order (i.e. "bring to front", "send to back"...).



You can make objects invisible without having to write any script by selecting the objects which should be invisible and setting the Presence property, on the Object palette's Field tab, to
Invisible or
Hidden - Exclude from Layout. The former means the objects won't be visible but they will still be a factor in the way in which objects are placed on the form while the latter means they're totally hidden from the form.