Default Status

Move the mouse over the link below and then around the screen.

Hello Link!

Discussion

Changes to window.status are temporary. A persistant status bar message can be created with window.defaultStatus. This script creates a status bar message which prompts the reader to return to the link. (Please note: this feature works extremely erratically with early versions of Netscape Navigator 2.0 and 3.0.)

Setting the status

The onMouseOver event

<A HREF="#" onMouseOver="setStatus();return true"> Hello Link!</A> function setStatus()
{

window.defaultStatus = "Move on top of the Link"
window.status = "Please click me!"

}

Default Status

Discussion

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