# Hand Cursor disappearing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hand-cursor-disappearing/135537>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 22, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hand-cursor-disappearing/135537 "2008-04-22T22:49:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nik\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Nik\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nik_B)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hand-cursor-disappearing/135537/1 "2008-04-22T22:49:31Z")

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I think I have a rather interesting situation. In one action, an index  
action mapped as such :

map.connect ‘’, :controller =\> ‘storefront’

I have a problem with the hand cursor disappearing. Over any type of  
link, the hand will appear as the mouse moves over the link, but  
quickly disappear. This is kind of hard to explain, so I created a  
movie.

[http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/6511/SafariScreenSnapz001.mov](http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/6511/SafariScreenSnapz001.mov)

The example in this movie is simply a regular href link.

Anyone know what might be causing this? I’ve ruled out javascript,  
css, so the only thing I could think of was something in my RoR stack.

Any clues?

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**Author:** ![Nik\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Nik\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nik_B)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hand-cursor-disappearing/135537/2 "2008-04-22T22:55:55Z")

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If it something to do with RoR you might check your log file to see if  
it can shed any light on what is going on. Can you include what the link  
code looks like, that might help in determining what is going on as  
well.

-S

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**Author:** ![Nik\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Nik\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nik_B)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hand-cursor-disappearing/135537/3 "2008-04-22T23:35:12Z")

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> Anyone know what might be causing this? I’ve ruled out javascript,  
> css, so the only thing I could think of was something in my RoR stack.

That does seem unlikely to me; all your browser sees is markup,  
stylesheets and scripts. The means by which they are generated shouldn’t  
matter, right?

Can you confirm that the behaviour occurs under Firefox as well? If it  
does, I’d install the Firebug extension and see whether the affected  
links differ in any way from non-affected ones in terms of markup and  
(computed) styling.

The other thing I could imagine would be a side effect from other  
(unrelated) scripts; maybe removing all includes from your controller  
layout brings a change.

Happy hunting,  
Jan