change cursor to finger pointer

Question

I have this a and I don't know that I need to insert into the "onmouseover" so that the cursor will change to finger pointer like a regular link:

<a class="menu_links" onclick="displayData(11,1,0,'A')" onmouseover=""> A </a> 

I read somewhere that I need to put:

onmouseover="cursor: hand (a pointing hand)" 

But it's not working for me.

Plus I'm not sure if this is considered JavaScript, CSS, or just plain HTML.

Answer 1

<a class="menu_links" onclick="displayData(11,1,0,'A')" onmouseover="" style="cursor: pointer;"> A </a> 

It's css.

Or in a style sheet:

a.menu_links { cursor: pointer; } 

Answer 2

You can do this in CSS:

a.menu_links {     cursor: pointer; } 

This is actually the default behavior for links. You must have either somehow overridden it elsewhere in your CSS, or there's no href attribute in there (it's missing from your example).