HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS

11.4. Modifying the Cursor on the Fly

One aspect of CSS2 that is often overlooked by Web designers but which, when used judiciously, can enhance the user experience at your site, is the ability to define a cursor that appears in conjunction with specific elements of the page. The CSS cursor property sets the mouse cursor to be displayed over each element.

Table 11-1 lists the different cursor values supported by the CSS2 standard and the major browsers that support them. The special value auto is the default, and lets the browser determine what the cursor should look like automatically. The value default sets the cursor to its default appearance, as dictated by the operating system. All of the cursors' exact appearances may vary between browsers ...