diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/Jit/graphsettings.js b/app/assets/javascripts/Jit/graphsettings.js
index 316608b1..32dd938b 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/Jit/graphsettings.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/Jit/graphsettings.js
@@ -494,9 +494,12 @@ function onMouseMoveHandler(node, eventInfo, e) {
     if (MetamapsModel.edgeHoveringOver) {
       onMouseLeave(MetamapsModel.edgeHoveringOver);
     }
+    $('canvas').css('cursor', 'pointer');
     return;
+  } else {
+    $('canvas').css('cursor', 'default');
   }
-
+  
   if (edge == false && MetamapsModel.edgeHoveringOver != false) {
     //mouse not on an edge, but we were on an edge previously
     onMouseLeave(MetamapsModel.edgeHoveringOver);
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/Jit/onCreateLabelHandler.js b/app/assets/javascripts/Jit/onCreateLabelHandler.js
index b6c9e9f4..25c5a2d6 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/Jit/onCreateLabelHandler.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/Jit/onCreateLabelHandler.js
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ function populateShowCard(node) {
     s.height( s.height() ).mCustomScrollbar('update');
     
     var name = $(this).html();
-    node.name = name;
+    node.name = decodeEntities(name);
     Mconsole.plot();
   });
 
diff --git a/app/views/synapses/create.js.erb b/app/views/synapses/create.js.erb
index b92a24e1..d2c8dcf8 100644
--- a/app/views/synapses/create.js.erb
+++ b/app/views/synapses/create.js.erb
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if ( Mconsole != null) {
       showDesc: true, //will be changed by selectEdge
       category: '<%= @synapse.category %>',
       id: '<%= @synapse.id %>',
-      userid: '<%= @synapse.user.id %>',
+      userid: <%= @synapse.user.id %>,
       username: '<%= @synapse.user.name %>',			
       permission: '<%= @synapse.permission %>'
       });