Is there a way to change the just color of the textarea cursor without changing the font color?

Question

I want to have a feature for my website that allows users to tag other users / articles. But anchor tags are not supported inside text areas. So, I set the background transparent to the text box and place the div under it. In the keyup event, the div is populated with the value of the text field. The only problem is that the user cannot see the cursor because it is transparent. Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can do this with CSS ... check out the link http://beradrian.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/cross-browser-custom-css-cursors/

input, textarea {
    cursor: url(cursor.cur);
}