Question

When running the below code, it fails to display the text I wrote. Instead, it displays in the status bar the URI of the link. Why is this happening?

<a href="link" onmouseover="self.status='your text';" onmouseout="self.status='';">link here</a>

Answer 1

window.status isn’t a standard property. It has been eliminated for security reason. You can’t do that on modern browsers (including IE9).

You’ll have to find another solution, like for example making a small div at the bottom left corner :

<a href="link" 
onmouseover="document.getElementById('status').innerHTML='your text';"
onmouseout="document.getElementById('status').innerHTML='';">link here</a>
<div id=status style="position:fixed;bottom:0;left:0"></div>