How do I change the default cursor in leaflet maps?

Question

I am trying to modify the default cursor icon when a certain control button is pressed. Although I was partially successful by using css on the container div, doing this overrides the move cursor state, which is something I do not want. What I mean with this is that the move icon no longer appears while moving through the map (but not when on markers!).

I'd like to know if there is a non-hacky way through the api to achieve special cursor behaviour without redifining everything.

This is what I tried to do, #map is the container div for the leaflet map.

#map[control=pressed] {     cursor: url('..custom.png'); } 

Answer 1

Edit 5.18.2017: Raw CSS and Javascript via Leaflet Framework (recommended)

I was looking through the source code for the BoxZoom plugin and noticed their approach using Leaflet's built-in DOM mutators and wanted to promote it here...this is certainly the best practice.

Example jsfiddle

Somewhere in your CSS include a class like this..

.leaflet-container.crosshair-cursor-enabled {     cursor:crosshair; } 

When you want to enable crosshairs, do this in your JS..

// Assumes your Leaflet map variable is 'map'.. L.DomUtil.addClass(map._container,'crosshair-cursor-enabled'); 

Then, when you want to disable crosshairs, do this in your JS..

L.DomUtil.removeClass(map._container,'crosshair-cursor-enabled'); 

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Original Answer: Map-level Crosshairs

@scud42 got me on the right path. You can use JQuery to change the Leaflet map cursor like this:

$('.leaflet-container').css('cursor','crosshair'); 

Then later, when you want to reset the map cursor, you can do this:

$('.leaflet-container').css('cursor',''); 

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Edit 1.21.2016: Per-feature Crosshairs

You can also enable crosshairs for individual features supporting the className option, such as a polygon, or feature vertices, etc.

Here's an example of a draggable vertice that will toggle pointer crosshairs (jsfiddle):

var svg_html_default = '<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;height:8px;width:8px;border-style:solid;border-color:#FFFFFF;border-width:1px;background-color:#424242"</div>';  var default_icon = L.divIcon({   html: svg_html_default,   className: 'leaflet-mouse-marker',   iconAnchor: [5,5],   iconSize: [8,8] });  var m = new L.marker([33.9731003, -80.9968865], {   icon: default_icon,   draggable: true,   opacity: 0.7 }).addTo( map );  m.on("mouseover",function(){$('.leaflet-mouse-marker').css('cursor','crosshair');});  m.on("mouseout",function(){$('.leaflet-mouse-marker').css('cursor','');}); 

Answer 2

Leaflet's styles allow you to change some cursor behavior. Put these in your local CSS to make the change.

/* Change cursor when mousing over clickable layer */ .leaflet-clickable {   cursor: crosshair !important; } /* Change cursor when over entire map */ .leaflet-container {   cursor: help !important; }