Checkbox and radio buttons : no cursor pointer on buttons hover

[ghusta]

Environment

• OS : Win 10
• Browser : Firefox 65.0 / Chrome 72.0

Test case

Since version 4.3, when hovering the mouse pointer on a radio button within a button group (btn-group-toggle), there is no cursor pointer anymore. It worked with version 4.2.

The behaviour is the same with both examples in the documentation (group of 1 button / group of 3 buttons).

Reproducible within the documentation :

• v4.2 : https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.2/components/buttons/#checkbox-and-radio-buttons 🆗
• v4.3 : https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/components/buttons/#checkbox-and-radio-buttons 🐛

For information, I had this style enabled in version 4.2 with cursor: pointer, but not anymore in version 4.3 :

.btn:not(:disabled):not(.disabled)

[patrickhlauke]

this is intended. by default, browsers don't provide a pointer cursor for checkboxes and radio buttons, so the opinionated use of cursor: pointer was moved in 4.3 - see #27021

[ghusta]

Thanks for the clarification and for pointing me to this PR.
I find it strange since it primarily looks like buttons, but OK...

[patrickhlauke]

(FWIW buttons also don't get a pointer cursor by default)

[ghusta]

I better understand this intention by looking at these links :

• #26998
• Buttons shouldn’t have a hand cursor

But when you say that buttons don't get a pointer cursor by default, this behaviour doesn't seem to have been updated according to the documentation v4.3 ?

For example on https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/components/buttons/ buttons still have a pointer cursor, whatever they are html buttons, links with role = "button", etc.

[patrickhlauke]

oh, interesting. maybe i've missed one of the iterations of the overall discussion (it's been going back and forth for months/years). i'll dig in and see why we now have this mismatch again...

[astegmaier]

I agree with @ghusta that it seems a bit strange to say at the same time "things styled with the btn class shouldn't have the hand cursor" and "<button> elements should have the hand cursor".

It looks like both changes were made in the same PR - #27021 (here and here).