cursor change while page loads

[Webskater]

Can anyone tell me how to change the cursor to the hourglass after a hyperlink has been clicked so it stays that way until the next page loads?
Thanks for any help.

[Pittimann]

Hi!

Example:
<a href="http://www.mySite.com" onclick="document.body.style.cursor='wait'">click</a>

Cheers - Pit

[JayDie]

Check the MSDN Library (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/cursor.asp)

[Webskater]

Thanks Pit for your answer and to Jaydie for posting the link to the appropriate page in the MSDN Library. I did look there first before posting my question but could not work out how to set the cursor in javascript as opposed to setting a style="cursor:hand" type of thing. Never completely sure what the difference is - for example there seems to be n ways of setting the background colour of various elements. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

[JayDie]

Originally posted by Webskater
...but could not work out how to set the cursor in javascript as opposed to setting a style="cursor:hand" type of thing. Never completely sure what the difference is - for example there seems to be n ways of setting the background colour of various elements...

You use the way: 'style="cursor: hand"' in a HTML element and if you want to change the style with javascript, you have to use: 'object.style.cursor = "hand"'...

[Pittimann]

Hi!

"hand" is IE only. Better to use "pointer", which works in IE and Mozilla.

Regards - Pit