Assign status bar text to a variable?

mattscotney · Apr 9, 2003

Hi all,

How do I assign the status bar text to a variable?

I tried the logical way but it does not work:
x = window.status;
alert(x);

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

nb: I am not after a method to change the status bar text.

Thanks in advance,
Matt Scotney

mwolf00 · Apr 9, 2003

I believe that your problem is that you are not reading the default status. Both window.status and window.defaultStatus are supposed to be read/write. I wasn't able to "read" a value unless I'd set it earlier by writing it.

<script>
window.status = "Hi"
function checkStatus(){
x = window.status;
alert(x);
}
</script>
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Assign status bar text to a variable?

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