Question

I’m using

window.status = "myStatusText" 

And it’s working fine in a normal window in my application, but if I want to use this function in a normal old-fashioned popup-window, it is not working.

The statusbar of the popup is visible. I can see the original URLs of the hyperlinks in the statusbar and i want to hide them.

Is this normal, that window.status does not override the original text in a popup?

<span id="mySpan" class="mySpanClass">

<a id="myLink" href="javascript:myClickFunction();" onmouseover="window.status='myWindowStatus';" onmouseout="window.status='';" >Link</a>

</span>

I’ve removed the onmouseout event and now the onmouseover-text is visible, AFTER the mouse was pointing the link!

Answer 1

I realised that we need to cancel the inbuilt browser handling of the event. This is simple to do:

<a href="#" onmouseover="window.status = 'test'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status = ''; return true;">Text</a>

You probably are, but are you supplying status=1 in the window.open method?

For example:

window.open ("http://www.stackoverflow.com","mywindow","status=1");

Some browsers, for example IE, only show the status bar in a popup window if the site isn’t trusted, so, for example, on an intranet site, unless you specifically add status=1, it wont show the status bar.

If you can see the status bar, are you getting a particular error or is it just not working at all?

Can you set the text of the status bar from some script inside the popup window?