I was alerted to this issue by users who thought they could not reply to threads when using Safari. I can reproduce the same behavior on my own site (default IPS theme, no customizations), and also here.

When I click the reply box at the bottom of a topic, the text editor expands, but no blinking cursor appears to indicate that typing is active. Clicking inside the editor multiple times does not make the cursor show up.

However, typing still works normally, and text is entered as expected despite the missing cursor indicator.

The cursor does appear as expected when creating a new topic in safari, or when using the reply box at the bottom of a topic in Chrome.

Safari v26.4, macOS 26.4.1

Edited June 4Jun 4 by David N.

Can someone confirm this bug?

Being that our forum's topic is a Mac software, a lot of our users are using Safari and are under the impression that they cannot reply to topics.

Try clearing the cache on your site, and also test on a default unaltered theme. Im not able to replicate this unfortunately

2 minutes ago, Marc said:

Try clearing the cache on your site, and also test on a default unaltered theme. Im not able to replicate this unfortunately

I've cleared my site's cache and my browser cache several times, and the video I've provided was actually captured using this site (invisioncommunity.com), not my site.

This issue has been reported by my members so it's been reproduced by multiple people.

I can reproduce it on my site with a default unadultered theme, as well as on this site.

Unfortunately, this isn't something that I am able to reproduce either in Safari on a Mac. However, you're not on the latest release of MacOS so I would suggest upgrading there to 26.5.1.

On top of my members alerting me to this because they're experiencing it on their end, I've myself tested this on 3 Macs now, two with Sequoia, and one with Tahoe, and I could reproduce the issue on all 3, on both this website and my website (IPS default theme, no ads, no customization whatsoever).

Just so we're clear: the issue isn't that you can't type, the issue is that the blinking cursor does not show up when you first click the reply box. If you type text, text is entered, and the blinking cursor appears. If you delete the text, the blinking cursor disappears.

Here it is happening on macOS Tahoe 26.5. Unfortunately at the moment I cannot update these machines, and as you can imagine I can't tell all our visitors to use only the latest macOS version.

Edited June 8Jun 8 by David N.

18 minutes ago, David N. said:

Just so we're clear: the issue isn't that you can't type, the issue is that the blinking cursor does not show up when you first click the reply box. If you type text, text is entered, and the blinking cursor appears. If you delete the text, the blinking cursor disappears.

Correct. I am getting the blinking cursor.

1 hour ago, Jim M said:

Correct. I am getting the blinking cursor.

Could you test this on Tahoe 26.5 to see if the issue can be reproduced and addressed?

I suspect many forum members are not yet on the latest macOS release, so this may affect a significant number of users.

Edited June 8Jun 8 by David N.

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.

16 minutes ago, Marc said:

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention! I can confirm this should be further reviewed and I have logged an internal bug report for our development team to investigate and address as necessary, in a future maintenance release.

Great, thank you!