mycursor.cur

06-08-2005

I mde a 16x16 bmp, renamed it to mycursor.cur:
I am testing this:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
body{
cursor: url(mycursor.cur)
}
</style>

<body>
cursor test
</body>
</html>

it does not work, does it go in the <head>? do I have to upload the
mycursor.cur for it to work? Right now it is in the same directory as the
mycursor.htm file.
Thanks for any help!

06-08-2005

Joe Mamma wrote :

> it does not work, does it go in the <head>?

trust your instincts luke.

i dont know what the ".cur" extension will be treated as by IE, but if
the file is a BMP then leave it as such. I would probably make a .ico
instead though

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06-08-2005

Joe Mamma wrote:
> I mde a 16x16 bmp, renamed it to mycursor.cur:
> I am testing this:
>
> <html>

No doctype declaration.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

> <head>
> </head>

<title></title> missing.

> <style type="text/css">
> body{
> cursor: url(mycursor.cur)
> }

You must provide a default fallback cursor in case your custom one does
not successfully loads. Eg
body{
cursor: url("mycursor.cur"), auto;
}

> </style>
>
> <body>
> cursor test
> </body>
> </html>
>
> it does not work, does it go in the <head>?

Yes. A simple markup validation test would have reported this error.

http://validator.w3.org/

do I have to upload the
> mycursor.cur for it to work? Right now it is in the same directory as the
> mycursor.htm file.
> Thanks for any help!

DU
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06-08-2005

Joe Mamma wrote:
> I mde a 16x16 bmp, renamed it to mycursor.cur:

So now you have a bitmap file, with an incorrect extension. You would
need to *convert* the bitmap to a cursor file, using an image editor.

I'd guess that browsers would have the right to refuse to display it.

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