Changing Mouse Cursor

[Gayathri Jagannathan]

I would like to change the cursor type depending on the different buttons cilcked.
Is anyway to change the mouse pointer using either JavaScript/JScript/ASP/HTML.

[bill bozeman]

The only way I know how to change the mouse pointer is to use something like Director or maybe Flash. The pointer is part of OS, so you would need some kind of application to change that and HTML and Javascript are not applications that can do that.
I know ASP can't do it because that is server side, but I am not 100% on DHTML stuff and maybe you can do it there. I would be a little surprised if you could, but maybe. Do a search on some good DHTML sites and see what you can find. I know with DHTML you can make trails from your mouse pointer, but I don't think you can change your pointer.
Bill

[Andrew Brasek]

At least in IE, you can change the mouse cursor to one of the existing types. In script you'd write
document.body.style.cursor = "wait"; (or default or hand...)

[bill bozeman]

Cool one Andrew. Looked it up a little more at this site. This page will give you all the possible values of what you can change the cursor to.
This does work in IE, haven't tried the mac, but I will test it out on MAC IE when I get a second.
However, Netscape doesn't have the ability to do this.
Bill

[DHAR]

I got the same problem, but i have to work on Netscape 4.75 without any plug-ins on flash. Will DHTML works?
Please reply for my pronblem also.