About anchor tag: disable display of link in status bar

[sasimca007]

Hello friends,
Actually when we write an anchor tag, what is the link given in href that will be displayed in status bar of browser. I want not to display that. Is it possible with javascript or css?

Please help me my friends.

[Dormilich]

it could be something with the browser's status bar, but such things are usually handled by the browser application (i.e. it is not a concern of html in the first place)

[acoder]

You can set window.status onmouseover. However, on most newer browsers, changing the status bar via scripts is disabled by default and the only way to alter the behaviour would be to change the user preferences manually. See, for example, window.status.

[gits]

yes ... and it even shouldn't be done ... the 'good' browsers don't allow that by default because of simply avoiding url-spoofing ...

kind regards

[kunal pawar]

You can use this one
<a .... onmouseover= " Window.status=' '; ">....</a>

Or we have other solution

<a href='#' onclick="javasc ript: window.location ='Your URL';">...</a>

[acoder]

The second "solution" would not be recommended because it would depend on JavaScript for a basic functionality, not to mention that the "javascript :" is not required.

The first I've already referred to, but as I stated, this won't work in many modern browsers without changing the default settings.