<p>I don't think animated cursors are supported, however if they are, they would likely have to be in .ani format, not .gif. </p>

<p>If I recall correctly, animated cursor support is browser based. I could be wrong though; this isn't something I am familiar with. </p>

<p>So far I only know commands in icons like "cursor:crosshair" in a speciric line's style-attribute. Sometimes I'm also browsing on "w3schools.com" for help of different commands in html, while I also like it's "try it yourself"-option there (to actually edit the mentioned code and see a preview of it, which will also work with different added codes there too) </p><p>Another page mentions ".ani"-files for animated gif-cursors. While another page (to be exact: stackoverflow.com/questions/33743554/html5-animated-cursor) refers to this solution being mentioned in its "head"-section instead: </p><p><style type="text/css"> </p><p>body{cursor: url('file_name.gif'), auto} </p><p></style> </p><p>I'm not using that much css-commands, but this page "css-tricks.com/using-css-cursors" seem to show an animated (custom) image, which is having the same position as the pointer of your mouse (at least in firefox on my windows7-computer it was working correctly there), but not sure if wiki-pages will support similar commands too? </p>

<p>So basically not really? Just wanted to know, I made gif cursors before knowing and wanted to use them at least. I'll still try to figure out how to try an ani file. </p>

<p>Yeah, unfortunately it isn't something that is commonly done. </p>

<p>to upload a static cursor, you need the extension .cur, not .png. the same is for animated cursors - not .gif, but .ani </p>

I've never tried custom cursors though

<p>I used an Image (png) file and It works fine for a static. I don't know a reliable way to make anis though. </p>

maybe animated cursors aren't supported

<div style="text-align: right;">reply to #7</div> <p>Where did you find this information? Since you have never tried animated cursors, I assume you didn't just pull this knowledge out of your head. </p> <hr><div style="text-align: right;">reply to #10</div> <p>They are supported by some browsers but not others; this was already mentioned earlier in this thread. </p>