Extensible HyperText Markup Language

cursor

Definition

The cursor property specifies the type of cursor to be displayed for the pointing device. The screen shot below shows a typical cursor when a mouse is hovering over a hyperlink.

Screen shot of a Web browser showing a hand cursor over a hyperlink.

The screen shot below shows a cursor of type help when a mouse is hovering over a hyperlink.

Screen shot of a Web browser showing a help cursor over a hyperlink.

Example

  1. a.support {cursor: help}

Characteristics

Possible values

auto
The Web browser determines which cursor to display for the given context.
crosshair
Screen shot of a crosshair pointer on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a large + sign.
default
Screen shot of the default cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as an arrow.
pointer
Screen shot of a pointer cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a pointing finger.
move
Screen shot of the move cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as arrows pointing north, south, west and east.
e-resize
Screen shot of a east resize cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a double sided arrow pointing west and east.
ne-resize
Screen shot of a north-west resize cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a double sided arrow pointing north-east and south-west.
nw-resize
Screen shot of a north-west resize cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a double sided arrow pointing north-west and south-east.
n-resize
Screen shot of a north resize cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a double sided arrow pointing north and south.
se-resize
Screen shot of a south-east resize cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a double sided arrow pointing north-west and south-east.
sw-resize
Screen shot of a south-west resize cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a double sided arrow pointing north-east and south-west.
s-resize
Screen shot of a south resize cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a double sided arrow pointing north and south.
w-resize
Screen shot of a west resize cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as a double sided arrow pointing west and east.
text
Screen shot of the text cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as an I-Beam.
wait
Screen shot of a wait cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as an hourglass.
progress
Screen shot of a progress cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as an arrow with a spinning ball or hourglass.
help
Screen shot of a Help cursor on Microsoft Vista. Often rendered as an arrow with a question mark.
uri
A prioritized list of URLs pointing to cursor files. If the Web browser cannot handle the first cursor file, it will try to use the next cursor file, and so on. The last item in the list can be a generic cursor name to be used as a fall-back. Browser support for external cursors is limited. On Windows, cursor files can be found in the folder C:\Windows\Cursors\
inherit
Use the same computed value as the parent element for this property.

Default value

auto

Applies to

All elements

Inherited

Yes

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