CSS cursor image bizarre issue - html

Am I missing something very obvious here? I'm trying to replace the cursor css property with a png as demonstrated here
I have it working with the demo 'happy.png' but can't understand why its not working with my 'call-me-hand.png'
.next {
cursor: url("https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/9632/happy.png"), auto;
cursor: url("https://robcleaton.github.io/warface/assets/images/call-me-hand.png"), auto;
}
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The cursor property has limits on the url value based on Browsers and OS. For example, Images larger than 128 x 128 Pixels aren't supported on Firefox. To make it work, reduce the dimensions of the given image.
Further information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Basic_User_Interface/Using_URL_values_for_the_cursor_property

I tried your pen using this link and... it worked! Not sure why it doesn't with yours though...

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How to change cursor in css?

I want to change simple cursor to image, so i have this code which isnt working
html{
cursor: url(image/cursor.ico), auto;
}
body{
cursor: url(image/cursor.ico), auto;
}
*{
cursor: url(image/cursor.ico), auto;
}
What is wrong here?
Your problem is probably not with your CSS code (although I recommend double checking the link to your image).
MDN says this:
While the specification does not limit the cursor image size, user agents commonly restrict them to avoid potential misuse. For example, on Firefox and Chromium cursor images are restricted to 128x128 pixels by default, but it is recommended to limit the cursor image size to 32x32 pixels.
I had an image that didn't work, changing the size to 32x32 indeed solved the problem!

Div with repeated background does not render proprely in IE/Edge

I have this div :
<div id="trees"></div>
Formatted with this css:
#trees {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 37%;
height: 40%;
background: url("/img/Tree.png") repeat-x;
background-size: auto 100%;
}
It works fine in all the browsers I tested, with this result:
Except in IE/Edge, where it looks like this:
Trees with color glitches:
The weirdest part is that this issue does not affect any other divs with similarly configured background images like the train tracks or the mountains... I have search a lot on this and couldn't seem to find an answer anywhere. I also tried to convert the image from png to gif and I got the same result. How would I fix this for IE/Edge compatibility?
Here is a codepen reproducing the problem in Edge: https://codepen.io/darthmooguy/pen/gmNWwg
I was having the same issue as you, and whilst this doesn't resolve the cause of the issue, I've found that adding transparent padding to the edges of your image and increasing the background size is a usable workaround in many cases.
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/BRwxbR
Adding the following scaled my background, so set it to an appropriate level.
background-size: auto 250%;
background-position: center center;
Please ignore the colour change - I was also wondering if a specific colour triggered it based on your initial problem, but it did not.
I might look at this further as my workaround here does not actually solve my issue. :)
here is the tree image (png) saved from Irfanview (save with transparency, no compression)...I'm not sure if Irfanview has stripped the Adobe meta data though.
as you can see... the colors and transparency color is completely different from the adobe authored source.

css custom cursor not working

I am using the css custom cursor to use an image for the cursor. The image doesn't work. What is wrong with this code?
Here is the image used. Fiddle
cursor: url('http://www.sarkelliancreed.comule.com/pics/TREES.jpg'), auto;
I was dealing with this problem last night. The issue is that there is a limit to the size of the image you can use as a cursor. If you really need an image that large to follow the cursor, have a div with that image snap to the cursor position on the mousemove event.
MDN at least describes the size limit for Firefox:
In Gecko (Firefox) the limit of the cursor size is 128×128px. Larger cursor images are ignored. However, you should limit yourself to the size 32×32 for maximum compatibility with operating systems and platforms.
MDN documentation for cursor property in CSS
Put in a 32x32 png rather than the image you're using as the URL and run the Fiddle again, and it works. Example image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Smile_icon_32x32.png
Any type of file format won't work, only .cur files.
cursor: url('http://www.sarkelliancreed.comule.com/pics/TREES.cur'), auto;
source: https://fb.watch/dRdLF-vwD2/

CSS custom cursor doesn't work in FF/Chrome

I am trying to create a custom cursor using the following image:
http://anuary.com/dev/hp/pad3/public/images/hand-cursor.png
The image size must be retained. I've tried simply to use body { cursor: url('http://anuary.com/dev/hp/pad3/public/images/hand-cursor.png'); }, though that doesn't work in FF/Chrome. (not even checking other browsers)
What's the reason for it not working?
The problem is not just with your css code lacking second argument but with the image file.
If you simply resize, make it smaller (i tried 32px for testing purposes) it works like a charm.
You might also want "pointer" rather than auto, judging by the look of the image;
cursor: url('http://anuary.com/dev/hp/pad3/public/images/hand-cursor.png'), pointer;
EDIT:
i realize now you wanted to keep the size but it just won't work. see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Basic_User_Interface/Using_URL_values_for_the_cursor_property for more info
Firefox requires a second non-url argument such as
cursor: url('http://anuary.com/dev/hp/pad3/public/images/hand-cursor.png'), auto;
There is a great reference at Quirksmode CSS2 - Cursor Styles
The reason this is not working is maybe that you're doing this:
cursor:url(https://example.com/example.png)
You have to add , auto after the statement. Therefore, this is what you are looking for.
cursor:url(https://example.com/example.png),auto;
Here's the clippet.
button {cursor:url("data:image/x-icon;base64,AAACAAEAICAAAAAAAACoCAAAFgAAACgAAAAgAAAAQAAAAAEACAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP8IAP8RAAAA/+YABP8AAAD/iAAAav8AAP+3AACi/wALCxIAAHP/APL/AAAA6v8AALv/AACV/wDQ/wAAAP8RAAD/9wAAe/8AACb/AABV/wAAAP8A/8gAAP/3AAAA+/8AAP8aAF7/AAAA/1EA/wCzAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABUcAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFQAAAA4AAAAAAAAVABgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEQAADAAJAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABEEAAAZAAkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAsACQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVAAAcCQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABMAAAkAAAAJCQkJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFAAACQAACQAAAAAAAAAcAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKAAAACQkcAgsZDA4VABUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA0AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHBRsBGg8WAAAEEQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBEGFQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAxAXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP////////////////////////////////////////////////8/////H////w////cPH//zDg//8Q5P//AOD//wDx//8A////AP///wH///8DgH//AwA//wAAH/4AAB/+AAf//AAD//wAAf/4AAD/+Af///Af///wf///8f////"),auto;}
<button>Hover over me!</button>
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Hide something with CSS without display:none or JavaScript

How can I hide the div without using display:none or JavaScript?
In my country, a lot of Blackberrys come with the CSS support disabled (the mobile companies here are not so good to developers). I have text that says
<div class="BBwarn">
please activate your css support and a link
</div>
I want to hide that once the user activates CSS support, but i can't use display:none; because it is only supported in BB firmware 4.6. It is a public site and I can't make all my visitors upgrade.
Does anybody knows a solution to this? I hope the question is easier to understand now.
Update:
Thank you all for the answers but I can't use
position:absolute
overflow
because they are available from Blackberry firmware 4.6 and up
things to try:
use the z-index to put it behind some other element
move it off the screen by absolute positioning
visbility: hidden
make the content "invisible" by setting background to foreground color (works only for text)
opacity: 0
but the real question is: why?
This is a common way:
margin-left: -9999;
How about:
visibility: hidden;
That should hide the DIV, (note how it will still be rendered but be invisible, that means it will take space in the document as if it was visible, but be invisible (unlike display:none; where the div will not be rendered)).
<div style="height:0;width:0;overflow:hidden;">
<!-- content here -->
</div>
Incidentally, this is what I do to preload images, which is nice because it doesn't use javascript.
Visibility:hidden won't do the same thing because some browsers are smart and won't make the request unless it thinks its actually visible.
Why not try the simple:
position: absolute;
left: -1000px;
I can't see why it wouldn't work.
I'm not sure of the percentages you're talking about that are using < 4.6, but if it's that important to you, then I can see a rationale for accepting that you can't please all the people all the time, and an acceptable cascading solution to this should be achievable. Probably with a link to explain the benefits of upgrading and enabling css.
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
visibility: hidden;
color: #fff;
background: #fff;
BTW - you'd better make sure that you're css is good if you're telling someone to turn it on... :-)
What makes you think display: none is not supported before version 4.6? Did you test that, or are you going by their documentation?
I'm not a mobile developer either, so I'm just going by what I gleaned from the documentation.
The BlackBerry Browser 4.6 CSS Reference indeed mentions "Availability: BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.6 or later" for the display property, but their BlackBerry Browser 4.3 Content Developer Guide indicates that 4.3 already supported a very limited version of the display property, including display: none. Versions before 4.3 don't support the display property (again, going by the BlackBerry Browser developer documentation).
Can you assume your users do at least have firmware version 4.3, or is that just as unacceptable as assuming they have 4.6?
Have you tried simply setting the width and height to zero? I'm not familiar with the BlackBerry (Browser), but I'm sceptically assuming its CSS support is less than perfect, certainly on the older versions. I wouldn't be surprised if this worked:
.BBwarn {
display: none; /* for 4.6 and up */
width: 0px; /* for 4.3 */
height: 0px;
}
But then width and height are only supported on all elements starting from version 4.3. Before that they could only be applied to <button> and <img> tags and some <input> types (according to the documentation).
So perhaps the safest way to really make it work on all BlackBerry firmware versions is to use an image for the warning, and use CSS to set its width and height to zero.
If an image is not an option (due to lozalization issues or so, perhaps), an ugly hack might be to specify an empty/illegal image source and put the warning text in the alt attribute. I don't know if setting its width and height to zero would still hide that alt text then.
visibility: hidden; will work, but the space taken up by that particular div will still appear. If you are going to use the negative left-margin method, remember that you will need to set the object's position to absolute.
How about this:
clip: rect(0,0,0,0);
Note: Please note the clip property does not work if "overflow:visible" is used.
In your case:
<div class="BBwarn">
please activate your css support and a link
</div>
just add this css:
.BBwarn{
position: absolute;
clip: rect(0,0,0,0);
}
You could position it absolutely off the screen.
But I, also, am not a mobile developer.
I assume You don't want to use JavaScript because the Blackberrys don't support it.
What about if you did the opposite and displayed the block of code with JavaScript, rather than tried to hide it?
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
document.open();
document.writeln('<div class="BBwarn">');
document.writeln('please activate your css support and a link');
document.writeln('</div>');
document.close();
//--></script>
This is a bit of a hack, but would not display the text with disabled JavaScript...
You can do something like wise:
.class{
opacity:0; overflow:hidden; visibility: hidden; height:0;
}
for being more precise you can add :
color:transparent; background-color:transparent;
What exactly is wrong with (the earlier mentioned)
width: 0
height:0
visibility: hidden
width: 0 height:0 visibility: hidden
...Does not always work with firmware 2.2 and older. Sometimes you can get an element to be hidden, but it will reappear with certain keystrokes (like underscore, for instance).
Or you could use Please enable Javascript
And use an image that reads "Enable CSS" and style it using "display:none".
So that whenever the corresponding feature is enabled these warnings wont show.
Alternately, I presume you are using some server side code? You could try detecting for the most common known platforms that support specific versions of css/javascript and deliver content accordingly. You might not even have to write it all yourself.
I had a similar problem when I was trying to customize a select box using javascript in BlackBerry Curve 8530 (OS 5.0). But, the menu created couldn't be hidden because the css following properties still don't work:
display
overflow
position: absolute
visibility
z-index
And destroying and recreating the HTML elements didn't work either, so I got here and could solve my problem.
I know my answer isn't exactly about the question raised here, but once I got here when had problems, I think I'm not the only one with it happened and is going to.
Anyway, even if those css properties worked, what I needed was some code that could work on the most of the BB models.
My solution was made using all the answers found here. It was simple. I made two classes:
.element
{
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
font-size: 12px;
color: black;
background-color: transparent;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.element_hidden
{
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
font-size: 0px;
color: white;
background-color: white;
border: none;
}
Yes. I've made two of them for each kind of element I had in my page.
Initially, all classes are set to class="element_hidden", so when the mouse is over the select box menu, all the classes are changed to class="element" and they are shown and hidden as if they were made invisible/visible.
I hope this can be useful to someone! ;D
We can use the transform property to scale the element along the x and y axis.
. BBwarn{
transform : scale(0,0);
}
I used font size to obtain this without using display none
font-size: 0px;
As you said in question that you need solution for Blackberry version below 4.6 and there are very few CSS properties supported for Blackberry version below 4.6 so we can use some sort of hack for this purpose. Try and set the text color to whatever the background is or set font-size to 0. It's a hack, but it makes it invisible. Run the following snippet and let me know if its works for you.
.alert1 {
color: #fff; //3.8 or later
}
.alert2 {
font-size: 0; //3.8 or later
}
<b>Alert1</b>
<div class="alert1">
please activate your css support and a link
</div>
<b>Alert2</b>
<div class="alert2">
please activate your css support and a link
</div>