How to make the cursor to hand when a user hovers over a list item using CSS?

Last Updated : 03 Aug, 2023

Use CSS property to create cursor to hand when user hovers over the list of items. First create list of items using HTML <ul> and <li> tag and then use CSS property :hover to cursor:grab; to make cursor to hand hover the list of items.

Syntax:

element:hover {
    cursor:grab/pointer;
}

Example 1:

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>make cursor to hand</title>
    <style>
        body {
            width:70%;    
        }
        h1 {
            color:green;
            text-align:center;
        }
        li:hover{
            cursor:grab;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
     
    <div class="sub">
        Computer Science Subject Lists:
    </div>
     
    <ul>
        <li>Data Structure</li>
        <li>Algorithm</li>
        <li>Operating System</li>
        <li>Computer Networks</li>
        <li>C Programming</li>
        <li>Java</li>
        <li>DBMS</li>
    </ul>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

Example 2: This example contains CSS property to change cursor pointer alternate. In this example, use nth-child(2n+1) as cursor:grab; and use nth-child(2n+2) as cursor:pointer;.

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>make cursor to hand</title>
    <style>
        body {
            width:60%;    
        }
        h1 {
            color:green;
            text-align:center;
        }
        li {
            font-size:20px;
        }
        li:nth-child(2n+1) {
            background: green;
            cursor:grab;
            width:50%;
            padding:5px;
        }
        li:nth-child(2n+2) {
            background: #CCC;
            cursor:pointer;
            width:50%;
            padding:5px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
     
    <div class="sub">
        Computer Science Subject Lists:
    </div>
     
    <ul>
        <li>Data Structure</li>
        <li>Algorithm</li>
        <li>Operating System</li>
        <li>Computer Networks</li>
        <li>C Programming</li>
        <li>Java</li>
        <li>DBMS</li>
    </ul>
</body>
 
</html>