How to Change the Cursor into a Hand Pointer on Hover using CSS
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Answer: Use the CSS cursor
Property
You can simply use the CSS cursor
property with the value pointer
to change the cursor into a hand pointer while hover over any element and not just hyperlink.
In the following example when you place the cursor over the list item, it will change into a hand pointer instead of the default text selection cursor.
Example
Try this code »<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Make the Cursor a Hand Pointer using CSS</title>
<style>
li{
cursor: pointer;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li>List item one</li>
<li>List item two</li>
<li>List item three</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
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