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 pointer for your cursor property instead, like this:

canvas { cursor: pointer; }

hand is IE/Opera specific, you can see a full list of which cursors work in which browsers here.