Welcome Area Padding in Portal Masthead

I took a copy of the SAP Tradeshow theme and began to modify it based on my requirements. The background is white with Welcome Area displaying text in bold / italics / gray. However, I can't seem to get rid of a dotted rectangular box that appears to adjust its size whenever I change the settings for the "padding" in the Welcome Area. After login, it seems that the cursor focus is actually on this padding box considering the dotted lines go away if I click somewhere else on the page.
Has anyone seen this issue before? Suggestions?

Hi all
The focus set for the Welcome Area is set due to the javascript function document.<some_element>.focus()
In the masthead this is set for the Welcome Area. Now if you have a closer look at the portal component com.sap.portal.navigation.masthead you will notice the jsp page for the masthead: HeaderiView.jsp under PORTAL-INF\jsp
In this jsp page is the function:
function setFocusOnHeader()
     if (document.getElementById("welcome_message").currentStyle.display != "none")
          document.getElementById("welcome_message").focus();
     else if (document.getElementById("header_notch").currentStyle.display != "none")
          document.getElementById("header_notch").focus();
Here you can see exactly where Welcome Area is getting the focus...so how do you "FIX" it?
- Create a copy of the masthead portal component
- Change the jsp function to not set the focus
- Re-package the new custom portal masthead component (com.yourcompany.portal.navigation.masthead) and deploy
- Create a new iView based upon this par file and attach to the framework page
Voila!
Cheers
Ankit
PS - If this isnt easy enough to follow then I may look at putting together a blog at some stage with this and other enhancements to the masthead!

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