253796 - cursor:auto inside cursor:crosshair shows as text cursor, not hand cursor

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 88688

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

seen on http://www.quirksmode.org/css/cursor.html-

When there's an <a style="cursor:auto;"> inside a <div
style="cursor:crosshair;">, the link gets a text cursor instead of a hand one.


(linux, cvs from today, gtk2+xft)

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88688 ***

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Test of cursor:initial

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Would it be awfully wrong to make auto == initial for 'cursor'?
It seems like this is what is expected.

Both CSS2.1 & CSS3 says:
auto
  "The UA determines the cursor to display based on the current context."

The current behaviour doesn't seem very "contextual" to me.

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

We don't support 'initial' for 'cursor'.

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

(The idea of contextual values like that rather than UA stylesheets is silly --
except for one thing -- text vs. non-text.  I've tried to get the spec changed
so that it says that 'auto' means "contextually switch between default and text
based on whether there is text", which is what it should say.)