Thanks Simon, It is possible to change the style of a cursor using css (http://www.quirksmode.org/css/cursor.html). I bet you're right, the onload probably will reset the style. I should have produced a test case but my thinking was stuck 'on the server side.'
I was surprised to see that the cursor does not change after clicking a the command button in MSIE. The status bar indicates that the page is loading, but not the cursor. Have a great day! -----Original Message----- From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:13 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: RE: how do I prevent nervous users starting actions more thanonce??? On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 15:01 -0700, James Reynolds wrote: > I new enough to JSF that I haven't incorporated Phase Listeners into > my programming but, in the same vein, I was wondering about changing the mouse cursor to an hourglass during long processes. > > Is it possible to update the page css styles based on Phase events? No, Phase listeners are server-side concepts. The user's browser doesn't know about them, it just gets served the final generated page. Is there an option to change the cursor for an HTML page? If so, then possibly a form's onsubmit script could set that. Presumably as soon as the page has reloaded the cursor would be reset. But isn't that done already by most browsers? Or are you talking about AJAX operations?
