Window Status Message

This simple script will change the default message in the status bar at the bottom of the browser.  Normally, whenever you move your mouse over a link, the URL or file it hyperlinks to appears in the status bar.  You can replace that with any message you like. Move your mouse pointer over any of these example links and look at the status bar below.

Status Message 1 | Status Message 2

• To make this work you simply add the following to an existing hyperlink:

<a href="status.htm"
ommouseover="window.status='Your message';return true"
onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true">Status Message 1
</a>

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