Blocking cursors

[PAnderson]

I am a frequent visitor on this gardening site and recently the administrator changed the cursors to these little garden images...aaarrrggghhh. A carrot for link hover and a trowel for the main cursor. I was successful at blocking the cursor images with AdBlock Plus (two images with the extension .cur), but the main cursor now has Windows 7 rotating circle following it around...as if an image is still trying to load (the rotating circle is equivalent to the hour glass in XP).

Is there some tweak I can do in AdBlock to make this go away??? Some setting in Firefox I am overlooking (I have the latest version of 3.6+).

Here is the site url if that will help: http://squarefoot.creatingforum.com/

TIA
PAnderson

[Hubird]

We can block the cursors but this isn't ideal because an hour glass pointer is used instead.

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||cursors-4u.net^$domain=squarefoot.creatingforum.com

The cursor is defined in the stylesheet

http://squarefoot.creatingforum.com/52-ltr.css

Which ABP can not modify only block (but that messes up the whole page layout).

[PAnderson]

Thanks for looking into this Hubird. Your reply gave me an indication what to look for on http://www.w3schools.com .

The administrator only needed to change one word in their CSS code. When you use a cursor url you should always add an alternative after the url in parentheses. Their code alternative value was "progress" value. Once it was changed to "auto" the rotating circle/hourglass went away.

The style would something like this:

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body, a, a:hover {cursor: url(http://cur.cursors-4u.net/others/oth-5/oth434.cur), auto;}

Thanks!
PAnderson