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Tasmanian Devil
07-11-2004, 05:15 PM
Hello~
I was wondering if it is possible to have a custom cursor like this page (http://home.neo.rr.com/schrimpf/rita/lady_liberty/liberty_dl.htm) and then a different custom cursor when it hovers over a link? Can someone help me out?

Thanks
Devil
ray326
07-11-2004, 06:41 PM
Cute page but my cursor didn't change.
MstrBob
07-11-2004, 06:52 PM
Using invalid CSS like scroll bar styling and using cursor:url('images/rocket.cur");
Tasmanian Devil
07-11-2004, 09:07 PM
ray326~
You cursor should have changed when you were outside the fireworks to a rocket.

MstrBob~
I tried to use that but it did not change my cursor so any other ideas? Also that would be for the page but what about to change when hover over a link?

Thanks
Devil
MstrBob
07-11-2004, 09:23 PM
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
cursor : url("rocket.cur"), pointer;
}

a:link { cursor : url("rocket.cur"), pointer; }
a:visited { cursor : url("rocket.cur"), pointer; }
a:hover { cursor : url("newcursor.cur"), pointer; }
a:active { cursor : url("newcursor.cur"), pointer; }

-->
</style>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>


You actually have to have the cursor file saved to your website and point to its location and it should work.
Tasmanian Devil
07-12-2004, 08:19 PM
MstrBob~
I have tried what you had say to try, except that for some odd reason, it does not work for me. Can you show me a page that you have created using it and maybe I will understan better?

Thanks
Devil
Vladdy
07-12-2004, 08:23 PM
Custom cursors are only supported by IE:
www.vladdy.net/demos/customcursor.html:D:D:D
Tasmanian Devil
07-12-2004, 08:44 PM
Vladdy~
For some reason I can not get yours to work either, I have IE5+.

Thanks
Devil
MstrBob
07-12-2004, 10:49 PM
Worked for me in IE. But cursor:url(); is valid CSS. They only require that you provide other alternatives. Such as:

cursor:url('finger.cur'), pointer;

Does this mean that their is actually a CSS element that IE supports and Mozilla DOESN'T????? I may die of shock!