Creating custom cursors for your website

Roland Taylor - Feb 17 '22 -

Hi!

In this quick tutorial, I'll show you how you can create custom cursors with just images and a few lines of CSS code.

Screenshot:

The Cursors:

We need at least one custom cursor image. You can literally use any image in a format the browser supports. For example, I've used the SVG format.

I've got three images:

These will replace the following states:

For this example, I have chosen three places to use my custom cursors:

In the HTML code, you can add the following:

   <body>
      <h1>CSS Custom Cursor Demo<h1>
      <button>Custom Button</button>
   </body>

NB: The text within the tags can be literally anything.

The CSS code is where everything really happens. We only need one property for each element, as follows:

body {
   cursor: url('default.svg'), auto;
}

h1 {
   cursor: url('text.svg'), text;
}

button {
   cursor: url('pointer.svg'), pointer;
}

And that's it! Check out a recorded demo of this tutorial in action below: