Customize a Mouse Cursor using CSS

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In this article, we are going to discuss the CSS cursor property. Where we will see how many types of values are associated with the cursor property that is available to use.

Also, we will look into how we can define our custom CSS cursor property using CSS.

But some of you may have a doubt about what is cursor. So basically the cursor property of CSS allows us to specify the type of cursor that should be displayed to the user obviously with respect to the content on which the user is hovering the cursor or with respect to scenarios.

Some of the values of CSS cursor are used commonly in developers day to day life like a pointer, grab, zoom-in or zoom-out.

But the values are not limited to only this, you can take a look at all the available CSS cursor values below that you can utilize based on your requirements.

[ auto | default | none | context-menu | help | pointer | progress | wait | cell | crosshair | text | vertical-text | alias | copy | move | no-drop | not-allowed | e-resize | n-resize | ne-resize | nw-resize | s-resize | se-resize | sw-resize | w-resize | ew-resize | ns-resize | nesw-resize | nwse-resize | col-resize | row-resize | all-scroll | zoom-in | zoom-out | grab | grabbing ]

Okay now adding more to it, how we can define our custom CSS cursor?

Here's how we can achieve that using one line of CSS.

.cursor{
    cursor: url('your-custom-cursor.png'), auto;
}

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