Question

Tested with Internet explorer 7 (for backwards compatibility) and Firefox 4.
I am getting strange behaviour from select event handler.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_select.asp states that event handlers supported.

<select id="selection" onfocus="window.status='here';" 
  onblur="window.status='there';"> 
 <option value="1">1</option>
 <option value="2">2</option>
 <option value="3">3</option>
 </select>

I cannot get any event handler to respond through the select tag. Am I doing something wrong? is the select event handler not firing or?
any ideas anyone?

Answer 1

The issue is with window.status.

The status property does not work in the default configuration of IE,
Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. To allow scripts to change the text of the
status, the user must set the dom.disable_window_status_change
preference to false in the about:config screen. (or in Firefox: “Tools
– Options – Content -Enable JavaScript / Advanced – Allow scripts to
change status bar text”).

Source.