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Suppress URL in Web Browser Status Bar
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24/05/2001 11:15:01
 
 
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23/05/2001 08:33:19
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Forum:
Internet
Category:
HTML
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00510256
Message ID:
00510931
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>>In a web browser when the mouse passes over a link, the link's URL is displayed in the browser's status bar. Is there a way to programmatically suppress this?
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>One way would be to use the window.status parameter in the A HREF tag:
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>window.status='';return true" onMouseOut=" window.status='';return true"
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This works pretty well, But I notice that when the user clicks the link, the URL shows up in the status bar. I tried the onmousedown, click and a variety of other events but I can't seem to find the one that causes the URL to appear in the status bar when the link is clicked. Any ideas?

Bill
William A. Caton III
Software Engineer
MAXIMUS
Atlanta, Ga.
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