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Bug 45789
Opened 26 years ago
Closed 26 years ago
Make cursor: hand == cursor:pointer for compatibility with IE 4 and 5
Categories
(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement, P3)
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(Reporter: kburke, Assigned: pierre)
Details
Internet Explorer supports a cursor type of 'hand' that is the same as the CSS
spec's 'pointer'.
Would it be possible to support the hand keyword and make it do the same thing
as pointer?
I know that it is not part of the spec, but it makes it difficult to have the
same look and feel cross-browser because IE doesn't support pointer and Mozilla
doesn't support hand. It may be that this goes against Mozilla's development
practices, I don't know...it doesn't seem like it would erode Mozilla's
adherance to the spec and since W3C is not going to use hand for anything
else...
If anyone has an idea about a good workaround, let me know. I've tried wrapping
my elements in <a name="somename" href="#somename"> which changes the cursor
correctly, but clicking causes the broswer to move around the page and it's
really annoying. Just using <a name="somename"> (without the href) would work
better but the browser does not change the cursor unless there is an href in
the tag.
Any ideas?
It would be possible but it's a bad idea. It would create a de facto standard
that everybody implementing CSS would then have to figure out. Why emulate IE's
broken behavior? I think this bug should be marked INVALID. There are more
important things to do.
this bug has already been declared invalid
marking dup.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40298 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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