Change cursor to hand when mouse goes over a row in table

Question

How do I change the cursor pointer to hand when my mouse goes over a <tr> in a <table>

<table class="sortable" border-style:>
  <tr>
    <th class="tname">Name</th><th class="tage">Age</th>
  </tr>
  <tr><td class="tname">Jennifer</td><td class="tage">24</td></tr>
  <tr><td class="tname">Kate</td><td class="tage">36</td></tr>
  <tr><td class="tname">David</td><td class="tage">25</td></tr>
  <tr><td class="tname">Mark</td><td class="tage">40</td></tr>
</table>

Solution 1

You can do this with CSS actually.

.sortable tr {
    cursor: pointer;
}

Solution 2

I've searched bootstrap styles a bit and found this:

[role=button]{cursor:pointer}

So I assume you can get what you want with:

<span role="button">hi</span>

Solution 3

The easiest way I've found is to add

style="cursor: pointer;"

to your tags.

Solution 4

Add cursor: pointer to your css.

Solution 5

I added this to my style.css to manage cursor options:

.cursor-pointer{cursor: pointer;}
.cursor-croshair{cursor: crosshair;}
.cursor-eresize{cursor: e-resize;}
.cursor-move{cursor: move;}

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Comments

[fmagno]

For an interactive code snippet check my answer

[James Montagne]

This will work perfectly fine without the :hover. cursor defines what the cursor changes to when your mouse is over it.

[James Montagne]

Any chance you could modify this answer to remove the unneeded :hover? The question still gets attention 2 years later and it would be nice if the accepted answer wasn't suggesting using :hover unnecessarily. I think it leads to a misunderstanding of how cursor works and implies that the :hover is needed to change the cursor.

[Kmeixner]

What above solution?

[observer]

not good if you introduce typos along the way (see "croshair")

[Greco Jonathan]

It was nice for bootstrap aficionados, but the question does not involve any front framework, so I don't understand why this answer is relevant with the question (even if the answer is great)

[Brian H.]

@Hooli as of 6-2018 this is post is now the top result when searching "bootstrap change icon to pointer on hover."

[Gabe Hiemstra]

@OlivierBoissé Just tested and it most definitely DOES work with BS 4

[tao]

Important: Do not add role="button" when you want to add style="cursor:pointer;". First off, your element depends on that CSS being defined elsewhere (and not being overridden elsewhere else) and, most importantly, you are misusing the role attribute, simply because most users do not need it. Note most screen readers allow iterating through [role=button] elements giving web accessibility challenged users the ability to quickly go through all the page buttons. Don't make them have to go through each of the table's rows to get to the footer links!