onClick inside anchor tag hiding mouse shapes

[benzden]

Are there any techniques, such as mouse-hover: on, that would force the mouse to act normally when the HTML encoding process causes it to do otherwise?

The recent discovery of the

<A onClick="document.poPhoto.src='02d2303.jpg'">Opening presents</A>

capability has vastly simplified my HTML encoding for those pages ( http://2002.edna.ciriacks.com ) that use it to display photos on the same page as the link to them. The problem arises when the normal mouse shapes don't appear when users cause the mouse to hover over the links - thereby losing the immediate awareness that that really is a clickable link.

[QuietDean]

two options -

try adding href="#" to the a tag

try adding

style="cursor: hand;"

The #href may be a better cross-browser solution

[benzden]

Aha! That's exactly what I needed. In fact, I saw that HREF=# technique within the past week and saved the source code for future reference and then forgot all about associating it with the onClick process.

Am going to use both with

#popho12 { color:#000000;cursor:hand;font-family:arial;font-size:12px;text-decoration:underline }

included within the .css file to cover various colors and sizes used on differing pages.

Thanks a bunch, as usual.

[Doorknob]

why not just add
cursor:hand into
a:hover etc
so that all your links are found easily?

[benzden]

I don't use a:hover except on certain of my 1000+ web pages - me thinking it's normally associated with coloring and sizing -- things that change from site to site. The normal <A HREF=...> anchor tag works well for almost all of them.

And, more importantly, the lack of mouse shapes usually (more often than I really want) indicates there's an error in my coding - makes it easier to discover and fix those errors. Would the a:hover with a 'forced' mouse shape default hide those errors?

[Doorknob]

hmm.. i think it would. u use it to detect errors in your css files?

[benzden]

No, have only one .css file. Use it to discover errors in the .htm files.