Lau, This can be done with a style attribute over items, so you should be able to change it for the entire body like so: document.body.style.cursor = 'hand; I only know "hand" -- don't have the chart handy :), but I believe the name of the hourglass cursor is "wait". Regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On Behalf Of Lau Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:49 PM To: javascript at LaTech.edu Subject: [Javascript] changing the mouse pointer Is it possible to change the mouse pointer to the hourglass while a piece of javascript is running? If so how? Thanks Lau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20020613/cf147ca0/attachment.htm>