Cursor styles
This page has been translated into Italian.
By changing the value of the cursor declaration you can assign cursor styles
to various HTML elements. Although in theory this is great functionality, it's very easy to confuse your
users by defining inappropriate cursor styles. Please be very careful; in general the browser defaults work
fine, and besides they're what the user expects.
The leftmost cells of the compatibility table have the indicated cursor value. See also the
W3C and
Microsoft references.
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all-scroll
Microsoft
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
To be tested |
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col-resize
Microsoft
|
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
To be tested |
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crosshair
W3C
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
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default
W3C
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
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hand
Microsoft
|
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
To be tested |
See the note below. |
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help
W3C
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
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move
W3C
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
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no-drop
Microsoft
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
To be tested |
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not-allowed
Microsoft
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
To be tested |
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pointer
W3C
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
See the note below. |
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progress
W3C
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
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row-resize
Microsoft
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
To be tested |
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text
W3C
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
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url
Microsoft
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Alternative |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
To be tested |
Use an image as cursor. This value has a few problems:
- IE expects a
.cur file. I have no idea how to create one, so this test doesn’t work in IE.
- Firefox requires a second, non-URL value; like
cursor: url(pix/cursor_ppk.gif), auto.
- The size of the image must be 32x32 pixels or lower. This is a (Windows) OS restriction; not a browser
restriction.
This test uses the following .gif image: 
- The test image shows up garbled in Chrome.
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vertical-text
Microsoft
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
To be tested |
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wait
W3C
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
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*-resize
W3C
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
To be tested |
The example is 'N-resize'. Instead of the 'N' you can also
use 'NW', 'W', 'SW', 'S', 'SE', 'E', 'NE' |
Note on pointer and hand
In the past the hand value was Microsoft's way of saying pointer; and
IE 5.0 and 5.5 only support hand. Because it's the cursor value that's used most often,
most other browsers have also implemented hand.
Since IE 6 and 7 support pointer, there's no more reason to use hand,
except when older IEs are part of your target audience. In that case, the only cross-browser syntax
is:
element {
cursor: pointer;
cursor: hand;
}
Note that the two declarations must be in this order.