status bar craziness

[Wozza]

I'm not sure how to phrase this...

The status bar says one thing (set onLoad). This will change as other things are loaded into a frame on the page. (no worries so far) Now, when the mouse moves over certain hyperlinks on the page (not in the frame), the status bar will read something else (no worries). BUT, onMouseOut, I want the status bar to revert to what it said immediately prior to the MouseOver. Rather than set something for the onMouseOut of each hyperlink.

Does that make sense, and if so, can it be done?

Cheers again-
Wozza

[FMaz]

could you gave us a clear exemple ... (some code or an URL)

[Wozza]

Sorry, I think I explained that pretty badly, maybe a simpler question and we'll see how we go.

If the status bar starts out saying 'Done', then changes to say 'follow the link' when you move the mouse over a link, is it possible to have the status bar revert to saying 'Done' when the mouse moves off the link, without using an onMouseOut command?

Cheers once again-
Wozza

[FMaz]

use the onmouseover on everything else ... :(

[dragle]

defaultStatus is the property you want; though I've never used it myself so I don't know how consistent it is.

window.defaultStatus="Welcome to my site";

defaultStatus is the string that should be displayed whenever there are no temporary status messages being displayed.

HTH,