ie6 cant select inside of textbox

for some reason in ie6 i can only select a textbox by clicking the border. below is the styling it has:

borde开发者_C百科r: 1px solid black;
margin-bottom: 7px;
margin-left: 30px;
padding: 2px;
width: 300px;

i have finally solved this. there was some javascript the applied a zindex to the parent that caused this to break. i hard coded a z-index with an !important on it to the textbox and it fixed it.