Mouse Pointers

[dagaffer]

Hey all, I've seen this been done somewhere & I was hoping someone here would be able to tell me how it was done.
When you hovered your mouse over something, it wasnt a normal pointer (ie. it had been set to show up as a different one).
Does anyone have any clues?

[adios]

Clue:

http://www.codetoad.com/dhtml/css_style_sheets/css_cursors.asp

[dagaffer]

thats gd stuff! thanx

[Roy Sinclair]

While the information presented above is true, MS added another proprietary CSS extension to IE 6 which allows you to specify any cursor by specifying a url to the cursor file. For example, placing the following into the body style (and placing the cursor file with your page) would set the default cursor for your page to the animated wagging tail version of the arror cursor.

cursor: url('wagtail.ani')


Right now of course, that would only be visible to users of IE 6 so it's of rather limited usefulness.

[jkd]

Originally posted by Roy Sinclair
MS added another proprietary CSS extension to IE 6

FYI, url() is a valid CSS2 cursor property value. User agents are not forced to support it though:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ui.html#propdef-cursor