Window Status Text With A Link.. *slvd*

[wpearsall]

hey ya,

I have an image hyperlink,

i want the windows status text to be "Delete Directory [$dir]" when the person hovers their Mouse on the image,
how can i do this?

onMouseover="javascript:window.status='Delete Directory [$dir]';"

doesnt work

it only shows the Hyperlink

ne ideas?

[georgec]

Try something like:

onMouseover="window.status='Delete Directory [$dir]';return true"

I'm not quite sure what you mean by [$dir], however.

[joeframbach]

i think you misunderstand the use of "javascript:".
it is used in links, as href.
example:
<A href="javascript:foo()">do foo!</A>
is the same as
<A onClick="foo()">do foo!</A>
the difference is the link appearance

[Rick Bull]

Yes I have to agree on the javascript: thing, you only need that for hrefs (which isn't the best way to do it anyway, but that's another thing). And what you may find is that you want to use the onmousemove event, as most browser fire the onmouseover event (and setting the status) then the default behavour of the browser kicks in afterwards and change the status to the path of the link.

[wpearsall]

hey ya,

It is workin now ne how (I needed to add it like:

<a href="index.php?cwd=.&amp;action=get&amp;file=IF+%26+VLOOKUP.xls" onMouseOver="status='Download File [IF & VLOOKUP.xls]'; return true;" onMouseout="javascript:window.status='';"><img src="/icons/generic.gif" width=20 height=22 border=0 alt="">IF & VLOOKUP.xls</a>

[so it's fixed now ]