How to change a links status label – to have something else appear in the status bar instead of the URL?
1. Create the link as usual 2. In the link tag type ONMOUSEOVER=”window.status=’ type in the text you want to show’; return true” Note the positioning of the ” double quotes” and the ‘single quotes’ and the ; semicolon before return true 3. Make sure you do not use any quotes (single or double) in the ‘text you want to show’ area IE4 + will also support this method for adding a label to an IMG tag. Netscape does not support this as yet. Example :
