change cursor to finger pointer

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I have this a and I don t know that I need to insert into the  onmouseover  so that the cursor will change to finger pointer like a regular link    lt a class  menu links  onclick  displayData 11 1 0  A    onmouseover    gt  A  lt  a gt    I read somewhere that I need to put   onmouseover  cursor  hand  a pointing hand     But it s not working for me    Plus I m not sure if this is considered JavaScript  CSS  or just plain HTML

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Add an href attribute to make it a valid link  amp  return false  in the event handler to prevent it from causing a navigation    lt a href     class  menu links  onclick  displayData 11 1 0  A    return false   onmouseover    gt  A  lt  a gt     Or make displayData   return false and     return displayData

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You can do this in CSS   a menu links       cursor  pointer      This is actually the default behavior for links  You must have either somehow overridden it elsewhere in your CSS  or there s no href attribute in there  it s missing from your example

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in css write  a menu links hover  cursor pointer

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I think the  best answer  above  albeit programmatically accurate  does not actually answer the question posed   the question asks how to change the pointer in the mouseover event   I see posts about how one may have an error somewhere is not answering the question  In the accepted answer  the mouseover event is blank  onmouseover     and the style option  instead  is included   Baffling why this was done   There may be nothing wrong with the inquirer s link   consider the following html    lt a id test link onclick  alert  kinda neat    gt Click ME  lt  a gt    When a user mouse s over this link  the pointer will not change to a hand   instead  the pointer will behave like it s hovering over normal text   One might not want this   and so  the mouse pointer needs to be told to change   the answer being sought for is this  which was posted by another     lt a id test link onclick  alert  Nice             onmouseover  this style cursor  pointer    gt Click ME  lt  a gt    However  this is     a nightmare if you have lots of these  or use this kind of thing all over the place and decide to make some kind of a change or run into a bug   better to make a CSS class for it   a lendhand     cursor  pointer      then    lt a class lendhand onclick  alert  hand is lent      gt Click ME  lt  a gt    there are many other ways which would be  arguably  better than this method   DIVs  BUTTONs  IMGs  etc might prove more useful   I see no harm in using  lt a gt     lt  a gt   though   jarett

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lt           add this code in your class called menu links -- gt   lt style gt    menu links  cursor  pointer     lt  style gt    In the above code  cursor pointer  is used to access the hand like cursor that appears when you hover over a link   And if you use  cursor  default  it will show the usual arrow cursor that appears   To know more about cursors and their appearance click the below link  https   www w3schools com cssref pr class cursor asp

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Solution via pure CSS  as mentioned in answer marked as the best is not suitable for this situation   The example in this topic does not have normal static href attribute  it is calling of JS only  so it will not do anything without JS   So it is good to switch on pointer with JS only  So  solution  onMouseOver  this style cursor  pointer     as mentioned above  but I can not comment there  is the best one in this case    But yes  generaly  for normal links not demanding JS  it is better to work with pure CSS without JS

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x000D   x000D  div cursor  pointer  color blue  x000D   x000D  p cursor  text  color red   x000D   lt div gt  im Pointer  cursor  lt  div gt   x000D   lt p gt  im Txst cursor  lt  p gt   x000D   x000D   x000D

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lt a class  menu links  onclick  displayData 11 1 0  A    onmouseover    style  cursor  pointer   gt  A  lt  a gt    It s css   Or in a style sheet   a menu links   cursor  pointer

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Here is something cool if you want to go the extra mile with this  in the url  you can use a link or save an image png and use the path  for example   url  assets imgs theGoods png     below is the code    cursor    cursor url http   www icon100 com up 3772 128 425-hand-pointer png   auto      So this will only work under the size 128 X 128  any bigger and the image wont load  But you can practically use any image you want  This would be consider pure css3  and some html  all you got to do in html is   lt div class  cursor  gt  lt  div gt    and only in that div  that cursor will show  So I usually add it to the body tag

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I like using this one if I only have one link on the page   onMouseOver  this style cursor  pointer

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