hiding link in statusbar by onmousover

Haroldd · November 26th, 2003, 09:41 AM

Well ok. your help so far is greatly appreciated. I now have a working onmouseover- and onmouseoutevent for each link on a page. But the part i don't get is why the "self.status=''"-command doesn't work anymore. I guess this comes due that "self" doesn't point to the the current window anymore. How do i reach the "status"-attribute from the current window so i can hide the link from the statusbar?

function OnMouseOver(tagname)
    {
        self.status = '';
        tagname.style.color='red';
        return true;
    }

    function OnMouseOut(tagname)
    {
        tagname.style.color='black';
        return true;
    }

this will be my last question

joefawcett · November 26th, 2003, 12:00 PM

I don't know, no code I've seen ever hides the link on my browser anyway. If you don't want the link to show a diffrent way would be to create your own link using a span tag:

Code:

<span class="link" onclick="window.location ='/'">Home</span>

Then assign the style in a style block:

Code:

span.link
{
  text-decoration: underline;
  cursor:hand;
}

Then use your loop code to assign onmouseovers etc.:

Code:

var colSpans = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
for (var i = 0; i < colSpans.length; i++)
{
  if (colSpans[i].className == "link")
  {
    //colSpans[i].onmouseover = etc.  
  }
}

Harking back, the ALINK attribute goes into the body tag, not the onmouseover code. See the link I posted.

<quote>
this will be my last question
</quote>

Can I bet on that :)

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Joe