jQuery Mouse Flicker in IE

Question

When I execute a jQuery function like .fadeIn, .fadeOut, .slideUp, .slideDown, .toggle, etc. in IE the mouse always flickers and the hourglass quickly flickers in and out of view next to the cursor. I've tried different methods of hiding the mouse entirely while the animation is going on to no avail, plus I don't want that in most cases anyways.

Does anyone have another solution to fix this?

Answer 1

If you are doing animation on anything that has a CSS defined background image, IE will do this. If you can do that in another way (<img> tag, exclude that element when IE animates, etc) it should eliminate the flicker.