image map status bar

[indnajns]

Want to do an image map where a mouseover changes text in status bar. However, EVERY image map I've seen on the web that claims to do this DOESN"T. All I see in the status bar is the link, like "http://somepage.html". Each author seems to think theirs works, but I only see the actual link, nothing special in the status bar. Frustrating because I wanted to use this for my own page. Doesn't work for my own either, even if I copy "working" text. Is this a bug in IE 5.0 or is it some setting I've flipped?

Indy

[TomDenver]

This works for me, but is probably the same code you've tried and isn't working:


<a href="yourlink.htm"
onMouseOver="(window.status='Window Status Text Here'); return true"
onMouseOut="(window.status='); return true">Link</a>


I don't have IE 5.0 to check if it works in that, but it does work in IE 6 and Netscape 7.