Cursor:hand not working with mozilla/firefox

Written by Kumar S
Posted January 4, 2005 at 6:38 am

Mostyle our CSS code likely looks like: cursor: hand; This is not working in mozilla,firefox except IE. The reason is IE supports the keyword hand and mozilla, netscape, firefox do not.
If You want to use cursor: hand; to work on all the browsers, simple use
Cursor: pointer

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55 Responses to this post

rohit on August 30th, 2006 5:20 pm

thanks for solution
Vanni on November 6th, 2006 6:29 pm

Grazie, Thank You!
Qhona on January 9th, 2007 1:40 pm

Thanks, i needed this solution
Raisuddin Mondal on April 4th, 2007 10:47 am

Thanks a lot.
I need this solution.
udhaya on May 4th, 2007 11:52 pm

Thanks
i solve it
Suresh D on May 7th, 2007 3:25 pm

mm. sharp
Andy Shellam on June 6th, 2007 2:18 am

Thanks! Just what I needed.

Andy.
AJ on June 20th, 2007 8:07 am

very good thx a lot
Rafiq on July 26th, 2007 1:45 am

Great solution.
Thanks.
Anees on August 29th, 2007 4:30 pm

Thanks a lot for ur solution
Peter on September 3rd, 2007 12:30 am

Thank you very much !
jon on September 21st, 2007 9:59 pm

Spot on ! Thanks !
Abhishek on October 15th, 2007 1:22 am

Hey great tip, Thanks !!

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Avnish on October 19th, 2007 12:02 pm

Thanks! Worked like a charm!
Doshi on October 30th, 2007 1:38 pm

scarp man ! If u know the solutions submit in the form otherwise do not post
Holiday Rentals on November 29th, 2007 4:39 pm

Yes this works but cursor: pointer does not work on I.E 5.5 so you need todo

cursor: pointer;
cursor: hand;

Which will cover all browsers.
hassan on December 14th, 2007 5:28 pm

cursor: pointer; also not working
Vimal on December 31st, 2007 6:18 pm

Thank U Kumar.
Turisto on March 4th, 2008 3:06 am

Thanks! this one was helpful
christina on April 2nd, 2008 2:40 pm

lots lots thanks
Senthil on April 3rd, 2008 7:02 pm

Thanks a lot !
It’s very helpful to me
Smitha Nair on April 17th, 2008 1:55 pm

Excellent… its a magic.. it works wondefully wiht all the browsers..
Nilesh on April 20th, 2008 7:19 pm

Hassan are you using style and class together for the cursor then it might be creating problem. Or if a child element has a different cursor then it over rides the parent cursor. This is what i think

To see a list of supporting cursors use http://www.quirksmode.org/css/cursor.html
Nilesh on April 20th, 2008 7:22 pm

Kumar thanks a lot,…cursor: pointer worked. I was finding this solution since last 5 months. Thanks a lot dear
Pradeep Tiwari on May 11th, 2008 1:41 am

Really very good and fast.

Thanks.
suresh on May 22nd, 2008 4:46 pm

cursor:pointer is also not working
Ganesh on May 27th, 2008 10:27 pm

Its worked for me.

previosly me too have the same problem problem like ,hand cursor is displaying in IE and it was not displaing in FireFox.But after seeing this forum i am tried with

.center

{cursor:pointer;}

It works well with IE and FireFox.

Thanks a lot
Zia on June 17th, 2008 4:01 pm

thank you very much
manoj on August 9th, 2008 11:37 am

thankx.
Jennifer on August 21st, 2008 5:57 pm

Thanks a lot ….. Really very useful
Hardik Buddhbhatti on October 13th, 2008 10:41 am

Hi,

Thanks for the solution.
My problem is solved by this…

thanks again…
Nayana on November 28th, 2008 9:25 am

Hi,

Thanks a lot.
It would have helped many people like me who are not so gud in all this stylesheet stuff…:)

Cheers,
Nayana
solow on November 28th, 2008 6:07 pm

Donno how old this is, but thanks a lot.
مدیریت یادگیری الکترونیک on February 25th, 2009 3:42 pm

that was great ie 5.5+ understands pointer and so does firefox mozilla
Henry Contreras on February 27th, 2009 6:36 am

Thanks, quick and easy!
Tarun on February 28th, 2009 9:15 am

Thank you for the solution. My problem solved
Prasob n on March 5th, 2009 4:03 pm

Thank you
Sid on March 6th, 2009 11:16 am

Thanks A lot , I needed this solution.
My problem was I was not getting hover icon inside span tag incase of IE6.0, but after providing this curosr:pointer it is happening for the browsers I needed, i.e. IE 6.0, Mozilla, Opera and Safari.

My HTML Code was:

Info

But inside span no hover link was viewed incase of IE, so I provided the attribute curosr:pointer for span tag in my CSS file and got the desired result. Thanks again.
baris on March 13th, 2009 3:40 am

thanks man!
Indiran on April 14th, 2009 5:37 pm

Working Fine. Thanks
en on April 16th, 2009 12:39 pm

Thank you!
Ravi on May 3rd, 2009 2:28 pm

Thank you very much, it is working very fine.
Vighnesh on May 13th, 2009 1:21 pm

Thank you…
was struggling 4 a long time to find a solution to this,…

thanx again
Arelowo on June 2nd, 2009 11:10 pm

One quick Google search brought me to this website and it resolved my issue. Thanks!!!!
Kathiravan J on June 11th, 2009 2:11 pm

Hey! Great..
Nice Soloution
Thank Q!!!…
Christer Fredrickson on June 23rd, 2009 10:54 pm

You rock! Thanks!!
manjunath on July 31st, 2009 4:38 pm

Ho my god you gave me the solution at right time… Thanks thank you very much
shibu on September 22nd, 2009 3:10 pm

Thank You…
cchar on November 28th, 2009 12:17 am

thanks men …
Aniruddha on December 9th, 2009 5:37 pm

Excellent !!!!!!!!
aaron on December 20th, 2009 3:15 am

THANK YOU!!!
Hui on January 20th, 2010 2:54 am

This helped me too. Thanks.
Sett on February 9th, 2010 2:36 pm

‘pointer’ not working in FireFox 3.5.7, i don’t know why )=
Techy on March 13th, 2010 6:25 pm

good man, u saved my day
Ravi Kuman Dannani on July 7th, 2010 10:14 am

Thank you Very much. You need to save my valuable Time

Great regards