cursor Attribute | cursor Property

Sets or retrieves the type of cursor to display as the mouse pointer moves over the object .

What's New for Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6

The cursor property supports progress, not-allowed, no-drop, vertical-text, all-scroll, col-resize, row-resize, and url(uri) as new cursor styles.

Syntax

HTML Scripting

{ cursor : sCursor }

object . style.cursor ( v ) [ = sCursor ]

Possible Values

sCursor

String that specifies or receives one or more of the following possible values, separated by commas.

all-scroll	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Arrows pointing up, down, left, and right with a dot in the middle, indicating that the page can be scrolled in any direction.
auto	Default. Browser determines which cursor to display based on the current context.
col-resize	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Arrows pointing left and right with a vertical bar separating them, indicating that the item/column can be resized horizontally.
crosshair	Simple cross hair.
default	Platform-dependent default cursor; usually an arrow.
hand	Hand with the first finger pointing up, as when the user moves the pointer over a link.
help	Arrow with question mark, indicating help is available.
move	Crossed arrows, indicating something is to be moved.
no-drop	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Hand with a small circle with a line through it, indicating that the dragged item cannot be dropped at the current cursor location.
not-allowed	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Circle with a line through it, indicating that the requested action will not be carried out.
pointer	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Hand with the first finger pointing up, as when the user moves the pointer over a link. Identical to hand .
progress	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Arrow with an hourglass next to it, indicating that a process is running in the background. User interaction with the page is unaffected.
row-resize	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Arrows pointing up and down with a horizontal bar separating them, indicating that the item/row can be resized vertically.
text	Editable text; usually an I-bar.
url(uri)	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Cursor is defined by the author, using a custom Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), such as url('mycursor.cur') . Cursors of type .CUR and .ANI are the only supported cursor types.
vertical-text	Internet Explorer 6 and later. Editable vertical text, indicated by a horizontal I-bar.
wait	Hourglass or watch, indicating that the program is busy and the user should wait.
*-resize	Arrows, indicating an edge is to be moved; the asterisk (*) can be N, NE, NW, S, SE, SW, E, or W —each representing a compass direction.

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: currentStyle . The property has a default value of auto . The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attribute is inherited.

Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties .

Remarks

The property handles a comma-separated list of cursor values. If the user agent does not understand or cannot find the first cursor specified, it looks at the next cursor in the comma-separated list and continues until it finds a usable cursor. If the user agent does not understand any of the cursors that are listed, the cursor does not change.

Examples

The following examples use the cursor attribute and the cursor property to change the cursor as it passes over an object.

This example uses a call to an embedded (global) style sheet to set the cursor to hand as the cursor passes over all paragraphs.

<STYLE> P { cursor : hand; } </STYLE>

This example uses inline scripting to set the cursor to hand as the cursor passes over the paragraph.

This example demonstrates setting a custom cursor, by using the url(uri) value.

<STYLE> oBox.style. cursor = "url(" + Some_Uniform_Resource_Identifier + ")"; </STYLE>

Standards Information

This property is defined in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 2 (CSS2) .

Applies To

[ Object Name ] Platform Version

Win16:
Win32:
Windows CE:
Unix:
Mac:

A , ADDRESS , APPLET , B , BIG , BLOCKQUOTE , BODY , CAPTION , CENTER , CITE , CODE , COL , COLGROUP , currentStyle , CUSTOM , DD , defaults , DFN , DIR , DIV , DL , DT , EM , EMBED , FIELDSET , FORM , hn , HR , HTML , I , IFRAME , IMG , INPUT type=button , INPUT type=checkbox , INPUT type=file , INPUT type=image , INPUT type=password , INPUT type=radio , INPUT type=reset , INPUT type=submit , INPUT type=text , KBD , LABEL , LEGEND , LI , LISTING , MARQUEE , MENU , OBJECT , OL , P , PLAINTEXT , PRE , RT , RUBY , runtimeStyle , S , SAMP , SMALL , SPAN , STRIKE , STRONG , style , SUB , SUP , TABLE , TBODY , TD , TEXTAREA , TFOOT , TH , THEAD , TR , TT , U , UL , VAR , XMP

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