You can define the shape of the cursor when the mouse pointer moves over the element. This is far more sensible than defining a onMouseOver and onMouseOut handler to set and reset the cursor shape.

The following cursor names can be specified:

• default

• auto

• crosshair

• help

• move

• pointer

• text

• wait

• hand

• resize

• n-resize

• ne-resize

• e-resize

• se-resize

• s-resize

• sw-resize

• w-resize

• nw-resize

The CSS standard suggests that a URI value could be specified to allow for a downloadable cursor shape to be defined although this is not currently supported in any browser.