Cross browser custom cursor style

Question

I display a world map by an img tag. I associate an image map with it to hyperlink some regions. I overlay a bordered box div indicating a certain region can be clicked and zoomed.

Now to show the user it does this I want the cursor to change to a magnifying glass shape. I looked through the web and found something that works in firefox and ie6-8:

#zoomregion:hover { cursor: url('templates/test/styles/images/magnify.cur'), -moz-zoom-in; }

Unfortunately opera,chrome and ie9 ignore it and show the default (i.e.: pointer). How can I use cross browser custom cursor icons?

Answer 1

The -moz- part of the -moz-zoom-in; means that it's for Mozilla only, to make it cross browser, you need all of the tags in the same id tag css:

#zoomregion:hover { 
    cursor: url('templates/test/styles/images/magnify.cur');
    -webkit-zoom-in;
    -moz-zoom-in;
    -ie-zoom-in;
    -ms-zoom-in;
    -o-zoom-in;
}

-webkit- accounts for a lot of browsers, including mobile (which, for this use, it's probably not needed) which is very useful and shortens things a lot.