Stacking Form Fields in Adobe Acrobat

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Hi! I'm creating forms in Adobe and have a multiline text field with a character at the beginning of each line that needs to be hidden, basically just a placeholder. I need to use this because "\n" and empty characters are not respected otherwise. In one PDF, I was able to use another form field with a background fill color to cover this character, but the stacking order of the form fields is not sticking when I copy them to other pages and files. The filled fields are falling behind the text field and are no longer hiding the column of placeholder characters. Changing the tab order does not seem to be helping and creating the fields from scratch in the order that I want them to appear also does not seem to be working, any advice? Thank you! 

[try67]

This is a very bad way of achieving what you're trying to do, as the stack order of fields can't be set explicitly. Basically, whatever field you edit last will appear on top. I recommend trying to find some other way of removing these characters. A script should be able to do it.... Or to replace them with something else.

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Thank you