Status Bar

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Clark Gonzales

Hello All,

I need a little assistance with the design of my page.
When creating hyperlinks, I would like to have a different
message appear in the status bar area rather than the
address of the link. How would I go about doing that? I
am currently using Frontpage 2002 on an XP workstation.

Your assistance would be much appreciated.

Thank you.
 
<a href="someUrl" onmouseover="window.status = 'Whatever you want it to
show'">Click Here</a>

In other words, you need to add an "onmouseover" JavaScript event handler
for the link that changers the status bar's message.

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Requires JavaScript.

In IE address type:

? JavaScript Status Bar script

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It is done with javascript.
Do a Google search for "status bar script"
and you'll get several hits.

That said:
<imho>
Don't do it.
1. People find it very annoying.
2. They won't click links on your page because they can't
see the actual link in the status bar before clicking.
</imho>

hth
 
Here's something you may want to consider:
Instead of displaying something in the Status bar,
use Tool Tips ( called title tags ) in the hyperlinks
instead. It's done by simply adding
title="what ever text you want"
Which will display a little text box when the link is
hovered.

hth
 
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