altering window status text using onmouseover event

[ljimpel]

I' am trying to set the window status bar text in a function called by the onmouseover event. The catch is that the onmouseover event is embedded in an area tag which is properly embedded within <map></map> tags.

In IE 6.0 the status doesn't change UNTIL I mouseout. It works as expected in NS7.

Anyone aware of this quirk and know any fixes...I've tried function calls, using self.status = 'my text': return true as inline code, and still can't figure it out....

[Rick Bull]

Sometimes the status is changed after the onmouseover event so as to show the user the location of the href, so you could try onmousemover:


<a href="#" onmousemove="window.status='Hello';">


Or if you wanted to be really efficient:


<a href="#" onmousemove="if (window.status != 'Hello') window.status='Hello';">