395913 - mouse cursor style does not switch to 'hand' when hovering over target area

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40298

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Linuxsoft]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

with html tag onmouseover, mouse cursor style does not switch to 'hand' when hovering over target area. Does not happen with IE, Opera, Safari.

<table class=f6 align=center style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-top:5px" bordercolor="#000000" width="750" height="20" bgcolor="#939393" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>

<td style="color:#FFFFFF" onclick="index.html" onMouseOver="window.status='';this.style.color='black';this.style.backgroundColor='#939393'; this.style.cursor='hand'" onMouseOut="window.status='';this.style.color='white'; this.style.backgroundColor='#939393';" width="85.7" bordercolor="#939393">
<p align="center"><b>Security0</b></td>

</tr>
</table>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Attachment: testcase from comment 0

Comment 2

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007091207 Minefield/3.0a8pre ID:2007091207
Actually I see the same on the trunk. Opera 9.23 and IE6 both show the hand.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Try this.style.cursor='pointer'
From a bit of googling (great resource, btw ;>) it looks like 'hand' is an IEism.