how2 hide link address show!!

[php77]

I am new to php. I have seen sites, programmed with php, wich can hide address show, when the mouse is hovering around a link. You know that this way, under the browser IE you see an adress to the file, where the link is pointing to. anyone can help me know how2 hide the address? thanx! :)

[aj_nsc]

I think you mean something like this, which is done with Javascript:


<a href="#" onmouseover="windows.status='Your Text here';return true;">your link</a>


You can change Your Text Here to whatever message you want to show up on the status bar.

Warning:
I find this extremely irritating because a lot of the time this is done so the user won't know that they are leaving your site.

[DARTHTAMPON]

/agree

this is a good way to scare experienced users away from clicking anything on your site. I will not click a link if I can not see where I am going before hand. Alot of evil people also like to obsivcate there urls to redirect you to a new location but make it look like you are going to google or other places.

It has a neat effect (you can make it scroll as well) but it is much less user frendly than leaveing it alone.

[felgall]

Modern browsers have disabled the access to the status bar for security reasons. If you can't see the proper address a link takes you to then it could be a scammers site just waiting to collect the password needed to access your bank account and empty it. Only antique browsers with poor security still allow the status bar content to be changed by the page.

[CreativeCozza]

I am new to php. I have seen sites, programmed with php, wich can hide address show, when the mouse is hovering around a link. You know that this way, under the browser IE you see an adress to the file, where the link is pointing to. anyone can help me know how2 hide the address? thanx! :)

I used alt="" in the A HREF tag