change cursor on a webpage into a picture

change cursor into picture

[wolf]

I was wondering how I can change the look of a visitors cursor when they enter my
website - ie change it to a picture or something. Perhaps with a javascript?

[DrDoc]

...or perhaps with CSS? ;)

div {
cursor: url(custom.gif);
}

[Rambo Tribble]

Do you know of a browser that supports a uri value for the cursor? I know its part of the W3C spec, but I've never seen it implemented.

[Elijah]

Do you know of a browser that supports a uri value for the cursor?

It works with Internet Explorer 6.

[DrDoc]

never seen it implemented

That brings up a whole 'nother question -- how smart is it to actually do this? ;)

[Rambo Tribble]

Well, I have IE 6 on Win XP Pro and it doesn't work for me with a .gif file.

Checking out Goodman's Dynamic HTML, he states, "Notice that IE 6 for Windows implements downloadable cursors. The IE 6 setting for an external URL requires an address of a cursor file of extension .cur or .ani (which you create with a graphics utility that creates Windows cursors)."

Are you saying that your experience differs from mine and Goodman's?