Topic awaiting preservation: Status bar Controle? (Page 1 of 1)

Hi!

Let's say I have a link leading to a page named 'Black'.
On mouseOver I'll make the same titel show 'Black'.

Is it possible to controle the writings on the status bar on mouseDown/onClick?
To let it say anything I please?

I haven't seen it anywhere so I cannot make an example.


Bye!

Yeah, but that would be a little pointless.

You see, the status bar message will remain set to whatever it was last set to untill you set it to something else.

The mouseOver ststus bar messages also have a mouseOut status message of "", which is nothing. So if you were to set the status message onMouseDown then it'd stay like that untill you either mouseOver, Out or Down on some other link. Kinda pointless really. Unless you set a blank message onMouseUp but that'd only show the onMouseDown message just before the mouse button is clicked.

And the above reason is most likely why you've never seen anyone do it before. Because there really isn't any benifit to gain from it. But if you must then you'll need to set the following inside the <a> tag:

onmousedown="window.status='your text here'; return true;"

or is it return false.... I can never remember. Eh, if one doesn't work the other will.

Thanks!

I'll try that.

Would this apply in e5, e5.5 and in e6?

Yup, people have been setting status bar messages since Netscape Navigator 2.

[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 10-23-2002).]

Drac, when you said that it reminds me of businesses that say things like, "serving the public since 1804" or "blah blah blah est. 1918". We should start putting those on our sites, "mouseovers since nn2" or "over 10 billion clicks processed".

. . : slicePuzzle

"document.writing since IE 4" would be mine. =)

Good one, Slimer. Actually, "mouseovers since nn2" wouldn't be right would it? The images object didn't show up until NN3, I think. Anyone remember for sure?

Yeah, Image object is NN3 & IE4. Well, IE3 did support the image object but only partly.

Heh, I still have a Javascript 1.1 book on my shelf. Oh the days when Netscape ruled!

OK - now another problem.
That mouseDown thing does not work if I got a link to another site
(working on e5) OR if I'm calling for a javascript!

Is that a protection for the user or what? - To let us know where we're going?

Thanks again!



[This message has been edited by 99 (edited 10-24-2002).]

Ya know, examples help a lot. How about posting your page so we can see what's going on.

Edit:

Hey bugs, how about "Bake'n cookies since HTML 3"

[This message has been edited by Dracusis (edited 10-24-2002).]

I have no current page but how about this:

At the bottom on this page you can click 'top of page'
and we see the javascript comand on the status bar.
And it doesn't go away no matter what I do.

Same thing when clicking the layers on Ozone Glass tutorial.

Maybe I just should let it go, cause it is not that important?
Only a detail that made me curious and

Right, so when the mouse is OVER the link, you see an ugly status bar message. Then when the mouse is OUT of the link that ugly message is gone right?

So setting status messages for when the mouse is DOWN on the link might be a little pointless eh? Maybe what you really want is somehitng that will just change the status message when the mouse is OVER the link...

But you said you could do that already in your opening post so I'm a little confused as to why you were even trying to set mouseDown status messages in the first place...

Have we been taking all of your medication lately?

I found some missing pills under my dog...

I know the subject is a *tad* silly!

Let us aaaaaall forget it!

I'm still fine!