Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 02/07/06 01:20

Barbara de Zoete wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:27:56 +0100, John Salerno
> <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>
>>>> <style type="text/css">
>>>> ABBR {
>>>> border-bottom: 1px dotted;
>>>> cursor: help;
>>>> }
>>>> ABBR.already-expanded {
>>>> border-bottom: 1px dotted silver;
>>>> cursor: inherit;
>>>> }
>>>> </style>
>>
>>
>> I tried this, but cursor: inherit didn't seem to do anything. Is it
>> not well-supported?
>
>
> The value 'inherit' means that the cursor will look just like what it
> looks like when it is over the content of the parent of the
> abbriviation element. So it might look like nothing happens, when in
> fact that is what is supposed to happen.
>
> If there is no title, the value 'help' is rather useless, isn't it.
>

Yep, that is why *my* code had the help cursor on ABBR *with* the title
attribute is present. The snipping above is misleading, my code example
was:

ABBR { border-bottom: 1px dotted silver; }
ABBR[title] { cursor: help; }

first occurrence: <abbr title="United Kingdom">UK</abbr>
.... later occurrence: <abbr>UK</abbr>





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Jonathan
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