html5 canvas hand cursor problems

Question

I\'m playing around with html5 and some javascript to make a minor sketchpad. Whenever I click down on the canvas in chrome, the cursor becomes a text cursor. I have tried p

Answer 1

Use the disable text selection on the canvas. This works like a charm.

var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
canvas.onselectstart = function () { return false; } // ie
canvas.onmousedown = function () { return false; } // mozilla

Cheers, Kris