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Make mouse pointer a hand when hover over <li> element?

I have an input form button when you hover your mouse over it the mouse pointer doesn't change orientation. How can I make a link specify to show the gloved mouse finger pointer?

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HollerTrain
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cursor: pointer;
Justen
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I found This interesting site about mouse pointer styling for you. Scroll down to pointer W3C.

cursor: pointer;

You can hover to test the ones you like and it indicates what browsers it works with.

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this is another little example 

<style type="text/css">
   a.clickable{
       cursor: pointer;
       cursor: hand;
   }
</style>

<a href="#" class="clickable">Link</a>
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If the link is an anchor tag it should happen by default. You could use CSS to force it, and then it wouldn't matter what html tag it is.

<a href="/Blah.htm" style="cursor: hand;">Blah</a>

(See Comments below for important info)

Roberto Hernandez
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    Drive-by-downvoters: he **did** provide an answer, and not unuseful. You might argue it's an innacurate and badly phrased one, but it's certainly much better than the question. :P – ANeves Apr 29 '10 at 14:28
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    `cursor: hand` is discontinued and it only works in IE, Opera and nothing else.Therefore this would return a disappointing result as over half of the popular browsers wont work. The one that all browsers use today is `cursor: pointer;`. The only reason you should use it is if you want IE 5.5 and 5.0 to work. – Jonathan Czitkovics Apr 29 '10 at 14:29
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    I stand corrected - proves the importance of downvote-comments. :) – ANeves Apr 30 '10 at 09:59
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    Thanks for the correction Jonathan. Old habits die hard, and "cursor:hand" its one of those habits that I need to get rid off. I do agree with sr-pt, the down vote makes a whole lot more sense once it is explained. – Roberto Hernandez May 06 '10 at 20:26