[javascript] How to change cursor from pointer to finger using jQuery?

This is probably really easy, but I've never done it before. How do you change your cursor to the finger (like for clicking on links) instead of the regular pointer?

And how to do this with jQuery since that's what I'm using it for.

It is very straight forward

HTML

<input type="text" placeholder="some text" />
<input type="button" value="button" class="button"/>
<button class="button">Another button</button>

jQuery

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('.button').css( 'cursor', 'pointer' );

  // for old IE browsers
  $('.button').css( 'cursor', 'hand' ); 
});

Check it out on JSfiddle

Update! New & improved! Find plugin @ GitHub!

On another note, while that method is simple, I've created a jQuery plug (found at this jsFiddle, just copy and past code between comment lines) that makes changing the cursor on any element as simple as $("element").cursor("pointer").

But that's not all! Act now and you'll get the hand functions position & ishover for no extra charge! That's right, 2 very handy cursor functions ... FREE!

They work as simple as seen in the demo:

$("h3").cursor("isHover"); // if hovering over an h3 element, will return true, 
    // else false
// also handy as
$("h2, h3").cursor("isHover"); // unless your h3 is inside an h2, this will be 
    // false as it checks to see if cursor is hovered over both elements, not just the last!
//  And to make this deal even sweeter - use the following to get a jQuery object
//       of ALL elements the cursor is currently hovered over on demand!
$.cursor("isHover");

Also:

$.cursor("position"); // will return the current cursor position as { x: i, y: i }
    // at anytime you call it!

Supplies are limited, so Act Now!

How do you change your cursor to the finger (like for clicking on links) instead of the regular pointer?

This is very simple to achieve using the CSS property cursor, no jQuery needed.

You can read more about in: CSS cursor property and cursor - CSS | MDN

.default {_x000D_
  cursor: default;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.pointer {_x000D_
  cursor: pointer;_x000D_
}

<a class="default" href="#">default</a>_x000D_
_x000D_
<a class="pointer" href="#">pointer</a>