On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:15:14PM +0000, Barney Carroll wrote:
> Styled buttons are a bucketful of issues. Normally it's practice to
> complain about the current release of WebKit, but I've just bumped into
> the issue of :hover and all those other pseudo-classes IE believes
> should be reserved for <a>s exclusively.
Isn't that fixed in IE 7?
> My client complains that my heavily styled buttons do not obey the
> modern convention of highlighting when mouseovered (which they do in FF,
> but of course my hover properties are ignored by IE) - hence being
> ambiguous in their interactivity. They're entirely right, but do I have
> to strip my buttons of their styling to be able to achieve this?
> Moreover, just how evil would it be for me to simply wrap the buttons in
> <a>s
I wouldn't like to gamble on browser interpretation of wrapping
buttons with links (and IE6 supports :hover only on links, not just
any anchor).
I'd attach an event handler (with JavaScript) that toggles a class
onmouseover and removes it onmouseout. The JQuery library makes this
very easy.
> and giving the CSS [a:hover input.button{cursor:pointer}]?
If its just the cursor property you are playing with, then don't worry
about :hover. It describes the mouse pointer only when over that
element anyway.
--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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