>>>>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?
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>In that case, you might want to remove the status bar.

Actually, the main culprit seems to be the onfocus event. Now there is just a flicker of the URL when navigation happens. I can live with this. Thanks.