# How can I change mouse hover behavior for hyperlinks in a notebook?

When I create a Hyperlink to a Youtube video in a text cell the link is colored blue like it would be in a browser. However, the mouse cursor does not change when it hovers over a link.

This causes my students to think that the link doesn't work or isn't really a link. To them it just looks like I have blue colored text.

If it is in a TextCell, you can do this:

• create an inline cell, with Ctrl+9
• put there your link with: MouseAppearance[Hyperlink["test", "testlink"], "LinkHand"]
• Evaluate In Place with Evaluate menu or Ctrl+Shift+Return.

and it should give you what you want.

I use the GUI to insert link to a text by highlighting text -> Toolbar: Insert -> hyperlink. When I hover the mouse over the blue text it does change from I to arrow.

Then I use the Shift + ctrl/cmd + E to reveal the expression of cell:

Cell[RawData["\<\
Cell[TextData[{
ButtonBox[\"test\",
ButtonData->{
URL[\"http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/37513/how-\
can-i-change-mouse-hover-\\
ButtonNote->
\"http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/37513/how-can-i-\
change-mouse-hover-behavior-\\

• If you use the show expression key bind, you do not see:TextDataor ButtonBox ? – yshk Nov 21 '13 at 22:37