don't change mouse icon when hovering over a marker

Question

I have a map with a number of markers. When a user clicks on one marker information for that marker is displayed on a side pane. To accomplish that I have added 'click' listeners to the markers and also store marker identifiers more or less as suggested in this SO answer .

Now, on certain modes I don't want the markers to be clickable (but still want them to appear on the screen). It is easy for me to remove all the 'click' listeners. However, when I hover over them with my mouse, the icon does change from the "open palm" to the "pointed hand" confusing the user. Upon investigating I see that the canvas class normally has the leaflet-zoom-animated class, but when I hover over a marker, the leaflet-interactive class gets added. I can change that cursor using, eg:

.leaflet-interactive {
    cursor: crosshair !important;
}

... but this has two problems:

1. it's not something I can toggle on and off depending on the various user interaction modes my application finds itself in
2. it's still jarring because the cursor does change and, further, I can't change it to the open palm cursor that Leaflet is normally using, since that's a non-default cursor and it's not clear to me how to access it.

Answer 1

If you can remove the click listener, I suppose that you can also add a css class to your marker. Here is an example http://jsfiddle.net/Mossart/w9830at1/7/ (look at the top marker)

var breakside = [45.571601194035345, -122.65673562884331];
var marker1 = L.marker(breakside).addTo(map);
marker1._icon.classList.add("not-clickable");

CSS:

.not-clickable {
  cursor: grab;
}

Answer 2

This works for L.circleMarker objects on a canvas renderer:

marker.options.interactive = false;

Curiously, it doesn't work on a non-canvas renderer.