# Displaying hand cursor on a textfield

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hand-cursor-on-a-textfield/261372>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 27, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hand-cursor-on-a-textfield/261372 "2008-05-27T01:50:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![adnan794](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@adnan794](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/adnan794)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hand-cursor-on-a-textfield/261372/1 "2008-05-27T01:50:41Z")

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Hi

I have a text field that can be clicked by user. The problem is when I roll over the text field hand cursor does not appear I have used txtField.mouseEnabled = true as well but no luck.

Can anyone please give a solution to this?

Regards

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**Author:** ![snickelfritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@snickelfritz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snickelfritz)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hand-cursor-on-a-textfield/261372/2 "2008-05-27T03:39:15Z")

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mybutton.txt1.mouseEnabled = false;  
mybutton.buttonMode = true;

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**Author:** ![johnlouis](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/johnlouis/32/568_2.png) [@johnlouis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/johnlouis)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-hand-cursor-on-a-textfield/261372/3 "2008-05-27T04:44:02Z")

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add the textfield into a sprite object and set that sprite object to be a button.