Opera and Custom cursor in CSS

Question

Where I normally am verry proud of Opera for implementing everything CSS really correct it seems that implementing a custom cursor with the following line doesn't seem to work

cursor:url("../pics/merge.gif");

The URL is correct since it works for regular background-image properties.
Works in other browsers, but not in Opera.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Opera has not yet added support for that. That line is incorrect though, per the specification a fallback cursor is required. So you have to write e.g.

cursor:url("path/to/cursor"), wait;

(Disclaimer: I work for Opera.)

Answer 2

There is a workaround for opera using javascript:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/customcursor

works ok, tested in opera 11, though I'd recommend usual css approach for other browsers, especially older ie, which are not too fast even without js.