dynamic status bar

[quenting]

hi,
hi have some links that open javascript functions in their href field. I don't like seeing "javascript:whatever()" in the status bar, so i'm willing to use something like :

<a href="javascript:whatever();" 
onmouseover="self.status='something';return true;" onmouseout="self.status='';">The link text</a>

The thing is, i'd like the 'something' to be the text contained within the link itself (here, "The link text"), and to be retrieved dynamically (i don't want to write self.status='The link text').
Is there some way i could do that ? what should i set the self.status to ?
Also, is there some way i can make this work on netscape ?

Thanks,
Quentin

[jofa]

onmouseover="window.status=this.innerHTML;return true;"

Works in NS7, but I think you mean NS4 when you say "...make this work on netscape"?

[quenting]

well i'm testing under NS6 and the window.status doesn't seem to do anything.
What i'm thinking is that if there's not way this works within netscape, it allows me to use IE-only 'behavior' feature to set all status bar mouseover/out events.

Quentin

[jofa]

The strange thing is that if you try
onmouseover="alert(this.innerHTML);"
...you see that the innerHTML property works in Netscape (6.2)

Why isn't window.status working

[awestmoreland]

Someone here told me a while back that it was better to use .text instead of .innerHTML but I can't remember if that was more successful or not.


Andy

[vgarcia]

Originally posted by awestmoreland
Someone here told me a while back that it was better to use .text instead of .innerHTML but I can't remember if that was more successful or not.


Andy

innerHTML is supposedly not a standard method, but MS and Netscape implemented it anyway. That may be why you were told that .text was better; it may be the standard.

[blufive]

It's entirely possible that it will work in N6.2 but not N6.0 - there was quite a lot of development between those two browsers.

Bear in mind, however, that many mozilla-based browsers (possibly including one or both of these) allow the user to prevent javascript messing with the status bar (a lesser-known cousin of the pop-up blocking)

[MarcusJT]

Originally posted by vgarcia

innerHTML is supposedly not a standard method, but MS and Netscape implemented it anyway. That may be why you were told that .text was better; it may be the standard.

Actually, I would have thought that it would be because if there was HTML inside the <a> tag like this:

<a href="javascript:whatever();" 
onmouseover="status=this.innerHTML;return true;" onmouseout="status='';">This is <b>great!</b></a>

then the status bar would display:

This is <b>great!</b>

whereas using .innerText would give you only the text (no tags) like this:

This is great!