Erase Status Bar

Thanks to "Syntax Error" for this script.

Here's his explanation:

Hi, There,
     Usually when someone moves his mouse over a link on your page you will get that annoying message at your status bar telling you that that link is a short cut to some document at www.fake.com. Now, to get rid of that you can use the well known "onMouseOver="window.status" " in the anchor. But that text does not disappear until you move your mouse over another link!!!

     Well, to get rid of that text in your status bar put the following in your <head>&</head>tags

SCRIPT:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide for the non capable
function link(txt)
      {
      window.status = txt;
      setTimeout("erase()",2000);
      }
function erase()
      {
      window.status="";
      }
// so far for the hiding part -->
</script>

EXPLANATION IN PLAIN ENGLISH:
     In here the function "link" will cause the regular window.status being replaced by any preferred text. Then after 2 secs it will be erased again by the function"erase" because that is set with the "setTimeout". Like this it appears to be a 'regular' link and you can fool your visitors by putting in something like "Shortcut to joe.htm at www.goodies.com" or of course some text from a higher level of intelligence.

     Then, when creating a link in your HTML document do the following:

<a href="index.htm" onMouseOver="link('Shortcut to joe.html at www.goodies.com');return true"> Back Home ---> The text between the brackets can be replaced by your preferred text.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Grab the script by copying from above.

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