Preserved Topic: window.status not working

Hey everyone...

I'm new, I'm fairly familiar with HTML, and I'm teaching myself Javascript and still learning about DHTML and Photoshop. Doc's site is GREAT!

Anyway, I have a problem that's driving me nuts. I can't get my onMouseOver="window.status.." tags to work on one page, and I can't figure out why. The page (with thanks to Doc for the layout & rollover inspiration) is:
http://home.columbus.rr.com/vpchrispv/linkmain.html

I've used the window.status stuff before and it works fine on all my other pages, but not on this one page. Can anyone spot the problem and tell me what's going wrong? Thanks!!!

VPChrisPV

I've just checked your page and statusbar text is changing correctly when I move my mouse over the links...

Hmmm. Must be the old Windows vs. Mac thing. I use a Mac G4 Cube; I've noted that some things work/look fine in Windows MSIE that don't work in the Mac version, and I usually chalk it up to a Microsoft anti-Mac plot <g>. But this is the first time that I've had something refuse to work in both Mac Netscape AND MacSIE where I can't figure out why.

Thanks for checking. The last time I had something like this happen, it was something screwy in the JavaScript, and I'm not certain if the problem is still with that or not.

VPChrisPV

I'm looking at it on a Mac with IE5. Some buttons work, some don't. More perplexing, some buttons work sometimes, and not other times. Isn't the "return true" supposed to follow the window.status arguement? I really shouldn't be commenting, 'cause I don't know that much myself, but I've always put the "return true" right after the window.status bit. Alos, I've tried to reset the status line to nothing on mouse out with a " " for window.status. Don't know if that makes any difference.

It seemed to me to have something to do with fetching the images for the timeout rollover animation.

Steve...

I always thought the return true just had to be at the end of the onMouseOver= statement. I've tried it with both the window.status right before the "return true" and with it in the middle of the MouseOver commands and right at the start; no dice, on this one page. I'll try resetting the status and see if that helps.

I keep thinking something's screwy in the rollover, too; that was the case in the single other time I had this problem. But I'm not good enough to see what it is -- it all looks correct to me.

(a quick edit -- I just tried adding a window.status='' to the onMouseOut. No dice. Thanks, though, Steve -- it was worth a shot -- but folks, HELP! The sanity you save may be MINE.

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[This message has been edited by VPChrisPV (edited 05-26-2001).]