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 putting cursor: hand in the css, but that doesn't seem to work. This has got to be an easy thing, but I look it up and can't find it anywhere

Answer 1

Use the disable text selection on the canvas. This works like a charm.

var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
canvas.onselectstart = function () { return false; } // ie
canvas.onmousedown = function () { return false; } // mozilla

Cheers, Kris