Cursor over links in web pages

Mon May 17 11:43:35 PDT 2004

On 01/28/03 18:04, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I am preparing an HTML presentation. It is basically just a bunch of small
> sequentially numbered html documents which pull in jpg's, sorta like this,
> with irrelevant details left out. This document would be called 5.html,
> for example, and it displays image5.jpg.
> 
> <body>
> <p>
> <a href="6.html"><img src="image5.jpg"></a>
> </body>
> 
> Each image displayed by the browser is the link to the next html document
> and thus the next image in the sequence.
> 
> The problem is the cursor, when over a link,  becomes that whimpy looking
> small hand with the pointed finger, not really very impressive. Since the
> presenter might like to use the mouse to point out items of interest in
> the image, a bigger pointer, like a big arrow, would be much more useful.
> 
> I do not know where this is fixed: the GUI,  the browser (I am using opera, but
> may have to use IE if the computer has windows installed), or in the html.
> 
> Any insight appreciated,s

This is an OS level issue.  You can't control this via a web page.

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