Thanks Dave,

I'm open to anything. I've been trying my code in the body onload event so it would fire when the page loaded. somehow I think either will cause the popup blocker to kick in.

John

>I don't know of a way to remove the status bar in the current window, although you of course can do it when opening a new window with window.open and using the options parameter.
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>You say you don't want any script, but can you use the onmouseover event of the link?

<a href="http://www.levelextreme.com"
>onmouseover="window.status=' ';return true;">Get more info</a>

NOTE: If you put at least a 1-space string as above it will blank out the status message. If you assign an empty string, it will leave "Done" in the status bar. Either way, you avoid showing the link's destination.
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>I did notice also that without the return true; added on, it didn't make the substitution.
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>But you probably already know all of this and are looking for something else?