Door lock

[marlon88]

What meaning has this door lock in the search box on TPB? Can anybody pls explain? Best regards

[Moe]

It doesn't mean anything. It appears when you connect using https. I guess they wanted to add a little secure spice to the text input.

[Raykle]

It prevents me from entering text within the search box and clicking on the [Pirate Search] button. I tried to access via http://thepiratebay.org but Chrome switches it to https which locks out the search. Annoying but at least I have a workaround:

I use the [TAB] key to reach the search box, type my text and then [TAB] once more to reach the [Pirate Search] button which I "click" by pressing the [SPACEBAR].

Works fine with Internet Explorer i.e. the search field can be typed in.

[Moe]

It doesn't prevent anything. It is an icon. Whatever issues you are having are in your browser, as you have already stated.

[Raykle]

I started Chrome's DevTools (F12) and figured out the problem.

After the </footer> tag there are 3 <apb-hidden> tags and 10 <div> that are rendered on top of the search field, the checkboxes (All, Audio ... Other) and buttons (Pirate Search and I'm Feeling Lucky):

Code:

<div style="height: 25px; width: 390px; z-index: 2147483647; top: 350.188px; left: 509px; position: fixed; display: block;"></div>

These are not present when I load the page in Internet Explorer.  I finally figured out that these are injected by the Chrome extension "Adblock Plus".  Disabling that extension made the search field accessible.  Hopefully this will be helpful to others.