A front-end developer gets to discover new things every day. Learning to create mesmerizing web experiences is a dream of every creative developer. An example of this is a custom cursor which is used in most of the websites you can find on Awwwards or FWA.
When I saw the custom cursor that follows mouse pointer, I was awestruck. And you wouldn’t believe how many google searches I made in order to find something about it. But everything went in vain because I could not reflect any term on what to search for.
Prerequisites for this tutorial —
- Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS
- JavaScript(objects)
- jQuery (selectors and changing CSS properties).
When you love a new concept, it is hard to find something about it because you really don’t know the exact term you should search for. I believe this simple guide will help you creating custom cursor that follows mouse pointer. It is similar to using lerp (linear interpolation). So let’s begin to code.
Writing the HTML for it
The design of the cursor totally depends on you. You may customize it as you want. I am taking a simple circular ring that follows the mouse. Add the following code between body tags.
<div id="circle"></div>
And that’s it. Yep, not much of HTML involved. What a sigh of relief.
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