Changing the window.status

dwhalen · Aug 15, 2002

Hey,

I know how to change the status bar on individual anchor tags and such by using the onMouseOver="window.status='Hello Joe';". But is there a way to change all anchor tags to change the statusbar to the same text? I was thinking along the lines of using style sheets?

I have a lot of links that I want to change to display a more user friendly message instead of a javascript function....and I am a very lazy man.

thanks

adam0101 · Aug 19, 2002

Loop through the links array and add the events to each one:

Code:

<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
function linkStatus() {
  for (var i=0; i < document.links.length; i++){
    document.links[i].onmouseover=function(){window.status='hi';return true}
    document.links[i].onmouseout=function(){window.status='bye';return true}
  }
}
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body onload=&quot;linkStatus()&quot;>
<A HREF=&quot;somepage.htm&quot;>....</A><br>
<A HREF=&quot;somepage.htm&quot;>....</A><br>
</body>

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Changing the window.status

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