Cursor styles
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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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alias
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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all-scroll
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
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cell
|
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
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col-resize
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
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context-menu
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No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
|
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copy
|
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
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crosshair
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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default
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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hand
|
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
See the note below. |
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help
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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move
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Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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no-drop
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
- This value crashes Safari Windows.
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not-allowed
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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pointer
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
See the note below. |
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progress
|
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
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row-resize
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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text
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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url
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No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Use a gif image as cursor: 
Syntax: cursor: url(../pix/cursor_ppk.gif),auto.
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url
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Use a cur image as cursor: 
Syntax: cursor: url(../pix/cursor_ppk.cur),auto.
I have heard, but did not test, that the cursor’s URL must be relative to the page,
and not to the style sheet, in IE at least up to 9.
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vertical-text
|
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
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wait
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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*-resize
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
The example is 'N-resize'. Instead of the 'N' you can also
use 'NW', 'W', 'SW', 'S', 'SE', 'E', 'NE' |
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zoom-in
|
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
|
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zoom-out
|
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
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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.