How to Change a Web Site Visitor's Cursor

Video Transcript

"Do you know that IE allows you to change your visitor's cursor. Hi I'm Dan Afonso with Enfold IT and Afonso consulting. And this video shows you exactly how to do that. Now this only works on Internet Explorer unfortunately, Firefox and Safari don't allow this probably for good reason since it can be abused but it's kind of fun if you do it every once in a while. So what we have here is a normal webpage and you know as you expect when you select over text you get the text cursor. Now what I've done is I've gone out and I've gotten a freeware cursor that I'm allowed to use which is the mandle broad set and as you can see I've installed it already by uploading it to the website. This is a dot c u r file and you can also use dot A and I. Now to add the cursor all you really need to do is add a single css tag and that tag is cursor and tell it the url from which to grab it from, make sure you end your quotes. Save. And once we reload we realize that my cursor every time I go into the window is now a beautiful depiction of the mandle broad set. I'm Dan Afonso and that's how to change your website visitor's cursor."