Greetings, First, is it possible

[Draug]

Greetings,

First, is it possible to change the cursor (in IE5+) to one that is not built in to the browser? Either with Javascript, or with Cascading Style Sheets???

I know how to change the cursor using the style="CURSOR: 'wait'" attribute. And I can change the cursor using style sheets. However, both methods only seem to work if the cursor that I am changing to is one of the dozen or so standard ones.

I want to change the cursor to the combination of an hourglass and the pointer. This is the cursor that Windows displays when an application is loading. I retrieved that wait_m.cur file from windows and tried to set my cursor to that file but it did not work.

How can I change the cursor to a custom icon? It only has to work in IE5+.

Thanks so much,
Draug

 

[Trevman]

The W3C Spec on this issue is at this url:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ui.html#propdef-cursor

An example taken from there would be:
P { cursor : url("mything.cur&quot, url("second.csr&quot, text; }

If IE supports this, then thats probably how it will work.
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[Draug]

Hi,

First, sorry about forgetting to put in a subject header.

Trevman, I have tried that exact thing, but in IE 5 it does not work. I was told it does work in IE 6. I have tried files like:
myCursor.cur
myCursor.gif

Thanks,
Draug