CSS A:Hover to change window.status

[jmcg]

I am looking to recreate the on mouseover action to change the status bar text in a CSS.
Previously would use but do not want to replicate for all potential links

onMouseover="window.status='Whatever I want'; return true"

Is there a way to do this in a CSS a:hover ?

 

[1DMF]

No. infact even IE has now disabled JS from allowing update of the status bar, so i would doubt very much if this will be a CSS implementation as it is considered bad practice to allow the status bar to be manipulated.

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[Foamcow]

No.
CSS can't do that.

In fact, the status bar is off limits in current browsers (not sure about IE7) even for Javascript.

You would need to use Javascript, but you could create a function that looked for a CSS class or a rel attribute and applied the necessary JS to that element. This would prevent the need for inline JS.

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[Ascalonian]

That is a JavaScript call only, and cannot be done in CSS. Sorry.

 

[jmcg]

Not the answer I wanted but thanks for the quick responses.

 

[cLFlaVA]

I know this answer has already been provided, but you should remember something:

[ul][li]CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and can only be used to manipulate the way something looks.[/li][li]JavaScript is scripting language and can interact with users, perform calculations, call functions, etc.[/li][/ul]

While you can use both CSS and JavaScript together, the basic premise remains.



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