tror du er nødt til at skjule form's eller det enkelte formelement her er et eksempel på skjuling af det element du nævner:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><title>Ingen titel</title>
<style type="text/css">
#dhtmlpointer{
position:absolute;
left: -30px;
visibility: hidden;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="dhtmlpointer">aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<br>bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb<br>cccccccccccccccccccccccccccc<br>dddddddddddddd<br>e<br>fffffffff<br>ggggggggg</div>
<form name="formnavn">
<select name="template">
<option value="default">Default option </option>
</select>
</form>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<b onmouseover="document.getElementById('dhtmlpointer').style.visibility='visible';" onmouseout="document.getElementById('dhtmlpointer').style.visibility='hidden';">test</b>
<b onmouseover="document.forms.formnavn.template.style.visibility='hidden';document.getElementById('dhtmlpointer').style.visibility='visible';" onmouseout="document.forms.formnavn.template.style.visibility='visible';document.getElementById('dhtmlpointer').style.visibility='hidden';">test2</b>
</body></html>