ah, 'body' - thats what I was missing.  Thanks Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Nyman, Robert [mailto:Robert.Nyman@i...]
Sent: 06 November 2001 12:40
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] RE: cursor


In IE (and probably Netscape 6):

document.body.style.cursor = "wait";


/Robert


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Shiell, ITS, EC, SE [mailto:alex.shiell@s...] 
Sent: den 6 november 2001 13:23
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] cursor


Is there a way to make the cursor change to the hourglass while something's
going on in such a way that it remains an hourglass regardless where they
move it to in the page?  e.g. so that its not overridden by individual
elements which have the cursor style attribute set?

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