Cocoa, Snow Leopard, Tiger compatibility needed.
I have a WebView containing some HTML. The HTML contains links, and is used mostly as a UI replacement for Cocoa.
Question: how do I prevent the 'hand' cursor from appearing when the mouse is moved over a link? For aesthetic reasons with this particular UI, I need it to stay as the arrow cursor at all times.
Thanks
Take a look at Cocoa WebView, WebKit - Prevent I-Beam cursor from showing over text?
They seemed to have a similar question, is that what you're asking?
EDIT: Haha sorry, I didn't realize that was you! Perhaps you could use that method for #a:hover ?
Take a look at http://trac.webkit.org/export/37902/trunk/WebCore/manual-tests/cursor.html it has a lot of different webkit cursors. The source code should be helpful as well
And from what I can tell cursor:default should make the arrow (from reading the source code)
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I'm created a very large map with many poly areas (over 20 coordinates each) for regions within the map. However, you can't add css to the AREA tag as I was told it's not a visible element. What I want to do is when the user hovers over an area on the map, I want it to be "highlighted" by applying a 1px border to the specific AREA element. Is there a way of doing this? No, I'm not going to resort using rectangles.
Not possible with CSS.
You might check out the Map Hilight jQuery plugin, though.
EDIT 10.2011
ImageMapster is a more recent, and more powerful plugin you should also check out.
If you want to be able to use arbitrary shapes and still use styles, have you considered trying SVG?
I'm not an SVG master but here's an example I whipped up: http://jsfiddle.net/tZKuv/3/. For production you may want to replace the default stroke with none, I used gray so you can see where it is.
The disadvantage is that you'd lose the ease-of-use area/map gives you, but I imagine you can accomplish your goal if you go this route. I added cursor: pointer to the polygon and you can add onclick handlers to simulate the href of <area>.
An obvious caveat is browser support. This seems to be working in Chrome, and I am pretty sure it should work in IE9 (jsfiddle's not working in IE9 at the moment), but previous versions of IE don't support SVG.
Update: Made a quick test page to test IE9. It does indeed work as expected. Here's the source.
Update again: This would also solve the zooming problem you asked about in another question.
Nope, there is no way to do this as you describe. I've researched it and tried. What you can do is set up mouseover events on the various segments and swap some overlay image that is shaded in the same area.
I have a few "a href" image links and hovers on a website for navigation (www.byrdnick.com, in the non-mobile version of the site). It seems that these image links confuses iOS browsers. When you tap the image link once, it changes to the hover image. When you tap the hover image, nothing happens. When you tap the hover image a second time, you are finally redirected to the link.
Is there any way I can make these image links work or am I going to have to try a whole new method like a map or something?
Thanks in advance to all you gurus who help guys like me out!
This is because of all the strange stuff your psd2css.js javascript does to tweak your divs and links.
I never used this tool, but it seems that your Web page was generated using an tool called psd2cssonline? This tool seems to add some obscure treatments behind the scenes to all your <a href> links. This is easy to see in the psd2css.js file, once the document is loaded, the script adds some magic to all your <img> hover functions.
I didn't study the whole javascript added by this tool, but I'm pretty sure that it is the reason of the problems. This tools does not seem to be compatible with touch-screen devices or somehow does mess with touch events in a mobile environment where "hover" are non-sense (you can't "hover" an item on a touch-screen!), and will probably need to be updated to be able to manage mobile versions of the web sites it generates.
Meanwhile, you may try to disable this script (and everything else that may be generated by this tool to automatically add behavior to your links) when your website is accessed on mobile, to avoid messing with the "hover" events in such cases and simply keep the standard behavior that you have without any similar script.
As long as it's something similar to what I have below and you don't have any odd class that is conflicting, you should be ok.
<img src="some image" />
I'm writing a web app. It's only ever going to be used with IE8, so I'm not concerned with the behavior of any other browsers here.
So: I know how to custom-style a button using CSS properties e.g. background-color, border, and so on. However, when you apply styles that way, the resulting button looks like a blocky table cell, nothing like the nice, glassy-looking button that IE8 renders by default.
Is there some way to add a tint to the nice glass-looking button? I.e., it looks just like it normally does, but with a red outline instead of blue, and a red highlight on mouse-over?
Or is this something I'm going to have to do by hand with images? Again, IE8-specific methods are perfectly acceptable.
Thanks!
-dan
There isn't really a filter that will get you as close to the default in IE, though you can get pretty close using the button tag and standard css. It will not look the same in all versions of IE though.
Here's the filter reference though if you want to try other things.
Regardless of browser, one of the quickest, easiest, most widely tested methods for styling buttons via markup is Jquery UI's button It's a matter of adding a few tags to the class element, and you've got a button based on an link, button, or input field. For styling, you can handle styling via CSS, or via the very well done ThemeRoller option, where you can control everything from text size to background type via a simple gui interface--and you can change on the back end or even the user end on the blink of an eye, even via drop down.
One caveat, since IE is non-standards compliant, rounded buttons fail gracefully to square--with proper styling.
I realize that you have determined that you can use a proprietary solution for IE, and in your case it might be just fine over the long term. But in my experience, that's a really dangerous path to follow. What if the actual long term is longer than your anticipated "long term?" You're specifying that it's acceptable to be proprietary to a browser that's well behind the accepted standards, is already a version behind, and uses unsupported (by universal standards) solutions to solve problems. Conceivably, that version is going to get tougher and tougher to find, and if Microsoft holds true to their patterns, once you install IE9 it will effectively render your computer difficult of downgrading. And, I can't emphasize enough that IE's market share is dropping like a rock, which is scary considering basically 95% of the machines out there have it pre-installed. All it's going to take is one overzealous IT director with "security in mind" to render your programming efforts moot. Sorry for the rant, but IE proprietary code has bit me hard more than a few times...
I'd have to double-check, but you should be able to use a combination of a background color and use a transparent PNG or GIF as the "background image" to add the highlights.
All things being equal, I've rather embraced the flat, square button - finding ways to make it work well with the design - but then again I've always been a straight line, square edge kind of guy. :)
As others have mentioned, you do want to be mindful (within reason) of what you may have to handle. It's quite possible that before the next re-write you're going to have to deal with IE9 - writing code that works well in IE8 and IE9 would be the most prudent approach.
Have a look at http://www.webdesignerwall.com/demo/css-buttons.html and also http://css3pie.com/.
Combining those you can get nice looking buttons in IE as well..
I have a piece of Flash on an HTML page that when you hover over it, it expands out to reveal more information.
There are text links that it expands over, however in everything but IE, when it's not expanded those links are still covered by the Flash making them unclickable.
I have the Flash piece in a separate DIV wmode set to transparent.
I know this is possible to make work but for the life of me, I can only get it to work in IE.
Does anyone have any idea of what I'm missing?
Thanks.
I'm a little confused by what you're looking for, so I'll give you a couple of areas to look into. With luck, one of these will get you going, but otherwise, feel free to ask more questions. I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes....
First off, by default, most browsers place flash files in the uppermost layer. So, the links that you cannot click are stuck in behind your flash presentation - basically, in the eyes of the browser, you are actually clicking on the flash presentation!
This article has some good information on this:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15523.html
But basically, you can use a parameter called WMODE in both the object and embed tags. For example, you could implement it like this:
and then add wmode="transparent" into your embed tag.
However, to make it smooth across all browsers (and to make the code a little easier to read/follow), you should also add some z-index values to your stylesheet.
I hope this helps a bit. If not, remember, I'm slow on the uptake....:-)
I'm creating a web page, and I can't (with html code) add a draw box*?
*It's a box, like a Microsoft Paint, only with one brush, where the user make a draw by a click draged.
The following links may be helpful:
Doodle, A Demo Drawing Program
Raphaël
DojoX
Canvas
Also, have a look at this StackOverflow thread: Drawing on top of an image in Javascript.
Steve
I'm afraid there is no simple way to do what you want to do. The current version of HTML (4.01, I believe) does not support this at all. HTML 5, which is still in development, has a <canvas> element that can be used with javascript to create the kind of thing you are looking for, but only the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari support it.
See: w3schools.com/tags/html5_canvas.asp for an explanation of the <canvas> element and dev.w3.org/html5/spec/#the-canvas-element for the full (uncompleted) specs.
See: http://devfiles.myopera.com/articles/649/example1.html for an example of the kind of design you are looking for.
There's no HTML element that's a "draw box". You'll need to find something built in JavaScript/Flash/Java and drop it into your page.
Try CanvasPaint or this other Canvas Painter.