cursor:hand

cursor:hand

am 07.05.2007 10:43:34 von work.Yehuda

Hello everyone,
How can I make this property: cursor:hand to work on firefox?
If I can't, is there any other way to chainge the pointer of the
mouse?

thanks

Re: cursor:hand

am 07.05.2007 10:48:47 von jkorpela

Scripsit work.Yehuda@gmail.com:

> How can I make this property: cursor:hand to work on firefox?

According to CSS specifications, a browser shall ignore such a setting,
since 'hand' is not an allowed value for the 'cursor' property.

> If I can't, is there any other way to chainge the pointer of the
> mouse?

cursor: pointer

The names are misleading, since the 'cursor' property actually affects the
_pointer_, and the value 'pointer' means that the pointer shape is that of a
_cursor_.

Anyway, the cursor property is mostly harmful in the hands of most authors.
It helps to prevent links from looking like links, non-links look like
links, and to create "funny" effects that are fun only if you have nothing
important to do _and_ you haven't seen such a "funny" effect a dozen times.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Re: cursor:hand

am 07.05.2007 11:00:57 von JD

work.Yehuda@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> How can I make this property: cursor:hand to work on firefox?
> If I can't, is there any other way to chainge the pointer of the
> mouse?

cursor: pointer; works in FF and IE 6/7. It does not work in IE5,
although cursor: hand; does.

Since cursor: hand; is non-standard and IE5 is no longer widely used,
you should just stick to cursor: pointer; from now on.

JD