hiding/changing window status

[Xerxes]

Hi,
I am trying to hide/change the window.status text when the mouse is
over the hyperlink text but it does not seem to work on Mozilla
(Firefox). Am I doing something wrong:

<a href="somefile.php" onMouseOver="window.status=''">text</a>
<a href="somefile.php" onMouseOver="window.status='sample
text'">text</a>

Thanks.

 

[Lee]

Xerxes said:

Hi,
I am trying to hide/change the window.status text when the mouse is
over the hyperlink text but it does not seem to work on Mozilla
(Firefox). Am I doing something wrong:

<a href="somefile.php" onMouseOver="window.status=''">text</a>
<a href="somefile.php" onMouseOver="window.status='sample
text'">text</a>

Yes. It seems as if the problem is that you're trying to hide
or change the window.status text. Firefox knows better than
to allow you to do that, unless the user grants permission in
their preferences.


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[Gérard Talbot]

Xerxes wrote :

Hi,
I am trying to hide/change the window.status text when the mouse is
over the hyperlink text but it does not seem to work on Mozilla
(Firefox). Am I doing something wrong:

<a href="somefile.php" onMouseOver="window.status=''">text</a>
<a href="somefile.php" onMouseOver="window.status='sample
text'">text</a>

Thanks.

Firefox 1.x, Seamonkey 1.x, Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 and Opera 8+ all
allow users to disable the ability to modify the status bar text.

The status bar text is there to provide the users reliable, non-modified
information about http connection, hypertext resource location, etc...
Browser manufacturers should never allow scripters to "toy with" the
status bar text.

Gérard

 

[Xerxes]

Thanks guys. Learned something new today!