Set Font Awesome icons as cursor - is this possible?
There is jQuery Awesome Cursor, where you can add font-awesome icons to your cursor by calling only one simple code:
$('body').awesomeCursor('pencil');
Or passing it some options:
$('body').awesomeCursor('pencil', {
/* your options here */
size: 22,
color: 'orange',
flip: 'horizontal'
});
Disclaimer: I am NOT the author of this library I have just found it.
The canvas method mentioned results in blurry cursors.
Using SVG offers better results:
- Download the SVG for the icon you want to use from Encharm's Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG.
- Edit the SVG using a text editor and specify the width and height you'd like to use
- e.g.: 24 x 24.
- Keep in mind there's usually a maximum size in the browser (128 x 128 in Firefox.)
- Declare the cursor in CSS, e.g.:
cursor: url( '/assets/img/volume-up.svg' ), pointer;
Got it!
- Create a canvas
- Draw the fa icon on it
- Change it into a base-64 image url
- Apply the image on the cursor css style
And I made a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rqq8B/2/
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13761472/how-to-render-glyphs-from-fontawesome-on-a-canvas-element
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13932291/css-cursor-using-data-uri
$(function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = 24;
canvas.height = 24;
//document.body.appendChild(canvas);
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle = "#000000";
ctx.font = "24px FontAwesome";
ctx.textAlign = "center";
ctx.textBaseline = "middle";
ctx.fillText("\uf002", 12, 12);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL('image/png')
$('body').css('cursor', 'url('+dataURL+'), auto');
});
body {
position: fixed;
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
In the end, I couldn't get @fish_ball's code working reliably, so I just downloaded the images, used gimp to crop and edit them to 32×32px, and used them like this:
.myClass { cursor: url('/static/img/pencil30_32x32.png') 1 30, crosshair }
The 1 30
part sets the mouse pointer 'hotspot' 1px from the left and 30px from the top of the image.