Why is the hand cursor not showing in anchor tag when hovered?

Question

I have this markup, a label wrapped in an anchor tag, but the problem is the cursor when you hover this doesn't change to the hand cursor,

<a href="#17">   <label class="autor">     <span class="by">       by      </span>     Erwin Lutzer   </label> </a> 

what am i doing wrong here?

can anyone plz help, thanks!!

Answer 1

The label is cancelling out the pointer, so make sure your CSS has cursor: pointer; for both the a and the label:

a, a label {     cursor: pointer; } 

Or better yet, remove the label! It's not valid to have a label inside an anchor.

Answer 2

Not the answer for actual question, but solution to my own, similar problem:

hand cursor is not showing when hover link. The problem was in the lack of href attribute.

<a>Link</a>  <!-- regular cursor --> 

but

<a href="#">Link</a>  <!-- cursor pointer -->