[thelist] windows status text change on mouse over?
Arthur Noel
adn at clara.net
Wed Oct 3 06:08:18 CDT 2001
> hello. i have an image and a part of this image (area
> rect) is a link to another website. in the <area rect>
> of this image i have the following text:
>
> onMouseOver="javascript:window.status='Hi';"
>
> but this is not working! when i move my mouse over the
> part of the image, it is indeed a link and it is
> working, but the window status bar still shows me the
> link, not the text "Hi".
I think your problem is that you have to return true after setting the
status. Try the following:
function m_over(msg) {
window.status = msg;
return true;
}
and then in your area bit have onmouseover="return m_over('Hi')"
Arthur
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