Cursor

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Basic Usage

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Setting the cursor style

Use the cursor-{style} to control which cursor is displayed when hovering over an element.

<button type="button" class="cursor-pointer ...">
  Submit
</button>
<button type="button" class="cursor-progress ...">
  Saving...
</button>
<button type="button" disabled class="cursor-not-allowed ...">
  Confirm
</button>

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Applying conditionally

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Hover, focus, and other states

Tailwind lets you conditionally apply utility classes in different states using variant modifiers. For example, use focus:cursor-auto to only apply the cursor-auto utility on focus.

<div class="cursor-not-allowed focus:cursor-auto">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

For a complete list of all available state modifiers, check out the Hover, Focus, & Other States documentation.

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Breakpoints and media queries

You can also use variant modifiers to target media queries like responsive breakpoints, dark mode, prefers-reduced-motion, and more. For example, use md:cursor-auto to apply the cursor-auto utility at only medium screen sizes and above.

<div class="cursor-not-allowed md:cursor-auto">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

To learn more, check out the documentation on Responsive Design, Dark Mode and other media query modifiers.

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Using custom values

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Customizing your theme

By default, Tailwind includes cursor utilities for many built in options. You can customize these values by editing theme.cursor or theme.extend.cursor in your tailwind.config.js file.

module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      cursor: {
        'fancy': 'url(hand.cur), pointer',
      }
    }
  }
}

Learn more about customizing the default theme in the theme customization documentation.

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Arbitrary values

If you need to use a one-off cursor value that doesn’t make sense to include in your theme, use square brackets to generate a property on the fly using any arbitrary value.

<div class="cursor-[url(hand.cur),_pointer]">
  <!-- ... -->
</div>

Learn more about arbitrary value support in the arbitrary values documentation.