cursors

how do you change the cursor?

[trinity]

hi, i need to know how to change the cursor on my website. if someone could help, id really appreciate it! :)
~~Trin

[treeline]

Please don't. Forces me to leave your site immediately. Almost as bad as loud music.

[trinity]

the cursor wont be huge. besides, its for an HTML project, it wont be online. i need sumthing to impress my teacher with. my site needs sumthing and i think a small cursor would be nice. it could even be an arrow, i just dont like the color i have. its boring. please help.

[Sanenet]

It needs to be on Windows, but the syntax is:

<a href="something.htm" style="cursor: hand;">

Different options are:

hand, crosshair, text, wait, default, help, and the resize icons.

Happy coding.

[trinity]

does it have to be for a link? i just want it to replace my mouse... :/ i already have a style code for my scrollbar colors. do i need to merge them? thnx.

[mrnoisy]

Do a search for mouse cursor javascripts or similar. Just paste the javascript into your html, good for novelty value.

It needs to be on Windows

I've used css cursor styles on Linux with success, I don't think it's limited to Windows.

[whoisgregg]

It needs to be on Windows

Nope, many of the cursors work on Macs, too. There's only a couple that are Windows proprietary. Searches for something like 'css cursor test page' will reveal charts of compatibility. :)