Web Developers, a question

[Alienwho]

Alright I know this might not make much sense, but it is a very special case and I don't have much choice in the matter.

Anyhow, you know how when you mouse over a link your mouse will change? Basically my question is, is there a way to trick make an anchor tag do the "mouseover" change while hovering over an anchor tag without applying the "href".

For example. Take a look at the "new topic" "profile" "search" etc. bar here at anandtech. When you mouseover, the mouse does not change indicating a link, it instead changes into the "text" style mouse. However, you know that it is a link because the font color changes. Lets say you had to make that change to anandtech to apply the mouse change indicating a clickable link, how would you do it?

I know I could do this with div's but that causes more problems than solutions at the moment.

Thanks.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=33&flcache=1129111&entercat=y

 

[LeiZaK]

Originally posted by: Alienwho
Alright I know this might not make much sense, but it is a very special case and I don't have much choice in the matter.

Anyhow, you know how when you mouse over a link your mouse will change? Basically my question is, is there a way to trick make an anchor tag do the "mouseover" change while hovering over an anchor tag without applying the "href".

For example. Take a look at the "new topic" "profile" "search" etc. bar here at anandtech. When you mouseover, the mouse does not change indicating a link, it instead changes into the "text" style mouse. However, you know that it is a link because the font color changes. Lets say you had to make that change to anandtech to apply the mouse change indicating a clickable link, how would you do it?

I know I could do this with div's but that causes more problems than solutions at the moment.

Thanks.

My mouse changes when I do those things... (to indicate a link)

 

[akubi]

Originally posted by: LeiZaK

Originally posted by: Alienwho
Alright I know this might not make much sense, but it is a very special case and I don't have much choice in the matter.

Anyhow, you know how when you mouse over a link your mouse will change? Basically my question is, is there a way to trick make an anchor tag do the "mouseover" change while hovering over an anchor tag without applying the "href".

For example. Take a look at the "new topic" "profile" "search" etc. bar here at anandtech. When you mouseover, the mouse does not change indicating a link, it instead changes into the "text" style mouse. However, you know that it is a link because the font color changes. Lets say you had to make that change to anandtech to apply the mouse change indicating a clickable link, how would you do it?

I know I could do this with div's but that causes more problems than solutions at the moment.

Thanks.

My mouse changes when I do those things... (to indicate a link)

same for me

 

[LeiZaK]

Your mouse cursor is teh broken

 

[rh71]

it's only FUBAR'd in FF. 😉 It's a link-cursor for Opera and IE users.

 

[Alienwho]

Hmmm...must be my computer at work then. I'll see what happens when I get home.

Oh that's right, it is a firefox deal.

Anyway if it helps, what i'm changing only has to function in IE anyways.

Wow I can't believe how many of you guys are using IE.

 

[Boogak]

Use style="CURSOR: HAND" within the anchor tag.

 

[Alienwho]

Holy crap boogak you are my hero. That works perfectly. Thank you very much.

/kill thread.

 

[DAGTA]

I haven't tried it on an anchor tag, but in .NET I can set the address to "javascript:void();" (without the quotes) and that will cause it to change the mouse cursor without the link going anywhere.