New to Muse - Help with Text sitting above my master page content header

Hi there, I am needing to know how to make the text box that I have created on my "Home" page scroll underneath the main content in the header section of my master page please.

Hiya Aish, thanks for your response. I have copied the header from master page and pasted it on my home page (assuming this is a layer??) They are the same width i.e. touch the edge of the visible page/background and pinned it. However, it's not filling the entire browser window. It's like it's only the page width and pinning it to the left side of the browser. My text however is going behind this now so thank you. Any chance you could help extend the graphics so they fill the browser width as per the master page please??

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Dev environment: JSP/Struts - Using DynaValidatorActionForm for ActionForm
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I enter a name, select "Other" from the drop down and click on Submit leaving the "Country Name" text box blank.
Now, because of the validation I'm performing, if "Other" is selected, the name of the country should also be provided. In this case, obviously the validation fails and the same page is returned via "mapping.getInput()".
Now the problem is, whatever I put in for "Name" is still retained but the drop down is reset to "Select One". This is causing confusion to the user because the error msg is misleading when it says, "Enter a country name", but in reality the user has to redo the drop down selection also.
Anyway, is there a way I can make the drop down also retain the data it had prior to the page refresh just like the "Name" text box?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Here's the code from the "Action" where I do my validation check...
-------- "Action" Code -----------------------------------------------
if (tbi.getCountryid() == 10)
if (tbi.getCountryName().equalsIgnoreCase(""))
ActionErrors countryErrors = new ActionErrors();
String errKey = "tbi.countrydata.invalid" + "." + (i+1);
afflnErrors.add("Invalid Data", new ActionError(errKey));
saveErrors(request, countryErrors);
return new ActionForward (mapping.getInput());
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Are you populating that select box( from database) everytime page refreshes ?
otherwise it should work as others.
as a work around, here is a javascript code you can use to prepopulate a option in a select box, but you need to know what value was selected. ( may be set that value in request or session)
call this function on load of the form.
// list - is the name of the dropdown
// selVal - is the value selected.
function selectListItem(list, selVal) {
for (i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
if (list.options.value == selVal) {
list.options[i].selected = true;

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