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ASAAKI
10-01-2002, 01:48 PM
is there anyway to make the cursor disappear? I have a portion of the screen, a div, where i would like the mouse to disappear, and have something else in place of it. yea i know ie6 allows different cursors, but i want it only to be different, or to disappear, in a specific division of the page, can it be done for other browser versions?
Roy Sinclair
10-01-2002, 03:16 PM
IE only (for now), since you can specify the cursor for each element on a page (not just the whole page) it shouldn't be difficult to specify a special cursor for the DIV in question. The key is to make yourself a transparent cursor using one of the cursor drawing tools.
ASAAKI
10-01-2002, 06:08 PM
what r the cursor drawing tools? what i've tried (pretty desparate but unsuccessful), was to make my own thing in paintbrush and save with the extension .cur.... it didn't work :( :rolleyes:
ASAAKI
10-01-2002, 06:11 PM
u said ie only. but i thought that u cud have, for example "cursor:hand" in the style sheet ... shouldn't that work for all browsers?
Roy Sinclair
10-01-2002, 06:28 PM
Originally posted by ASAAKI
what r the cursor drawing tools? what i've tried (pretty desparate but unsuccessful), was to make my own thing in paintbrush and save with the extension .cur.... it didn't work :( :rolleyes:

Go out to a search engine and look for cursor drawing tools, it's like a paint program that creates cursors which don't have the same file format as other images. That difference in the file format is why you couldn't just rename another image file.
Roy Sinclair
10-01-2002, 06:31 PM
Originally posted by ASAAKI
u said ie only. but i thought that u cud have, for example "cursor:hand" in the style sheet ... shouldn't that work for all browsers?

Because the objective being asked for is a "hidden" cursor and that's not in the list of standard cursors. Only IE supports custom cursors so far which makes a solution requiring a custom cursor an IE only solution for now.
ASAAKI
10-01-2002, 06:43 PM
ah...but of course... :o :o
ASAAKI
10-03-2002, 08:50 PM
found out that CSS2 allows for custom cursors,eg:

.someclass {cursor : url("whatever.cur") }
Mr J
10-04-2002, 06:19 PM
What you need is an Icon editor like Microangelo


Go here:


http://www.impactsoftware.com/muangelo/themaster/dlmike5.htm

Download the evalutation copy, open a copy of one of your cursor files and make it blank