Hide Status Bar text on active hyperlink

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  14 years ago

  by alohamora

  Aloha Mora

  , Singapore

  Joined 15 years ago

  Hi Members

  I have  a problem. I want to hide the url of the hyperlink from the visitors. For this i am using the code a

  <a href=http://www.mysite.com/ onMouseOver="window.status=''; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">My Link </a>

  It works fine when user mouse over on the hyperlink as it doesn't show the url. but when user Press the Hyperlink it show the url till the mouse button is clicked on the hyperlink.

  is there any thing to stop this

  Help Plz

  Aloha

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  14 years ago

  by Soulistic

  Vivek Aggarwal

  , United States

  Joined 14 years ago
  You might want to add the following event handlers also to ensure that no link is displayed in the status bar:
  
  onmousedown="window.status=''; return true" onmouseup="window.status=''; return true"
  
  So, the line becomes:
  
  

  <a href=http://www.mysite.com/ onMouseOver="window.status=''; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" onmousedown="window.status=''; return true" onmouseup="window.status=''; return true>My Link </a>

  You could just setup a javascript function to do this for you if you have a lot of links that need this, but if not, this will do fine.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  14 years ago

  by paulfp

  Paul Freeman-Powell

  Liverpool, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  This does beg the question, though, why do you want to pull the wool over your users' eyes?

  Is the link a .exe or something? Sounds potentially malicious to me!

  Most browsers will inform the user of the link, and then warn the user about anything which could potentially harm the user's computer.

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  14 years ago

  by alohamora

  Aloha Mora

  , Singapore

  Joined 15 years ago

  Hi Paul

  well my purpose is na to put any exe or any thing harmful to the users, But I am making a photo album which is under s user login, and it shows the images from diffrent folders depending upon the type of users, Now if a user will get to know the actual path of the folder then he.she would open the files from there. i only want to stop that.

  Hope its okay :)

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  14 years ago

  by alohamora

  Aloha Mora

  , Singapore

  Joined 15 years ago

  Thanks Soulistic,

  I tird the above code but its giving the same problem, On mouse clicked It shows the url of the hyperlink.

  is these any way to use  javascript function on href which returns the url like

   

  <a href="BLOCKED SCRIPTgetURL()" > Link </a>

  any idea?

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