Hiding Status Bar after loading

shultz · Oct 3, 2002

Hello,

I load a page in a new window like this

winSpecs='toolbar=no,status=yes,scrollbars=yes,width=400,height=450,resizable=yes,left=200,top=100'

srcFile = 'cellDetails.asp';

cellWin=window.open(srcFile,'cellDetails',winSpecs);
return true;

Is it possible to hide the status bar once the window loading is finished. I want to show a message in the status bar like "Loading Please wait.." until the page is loaded. Once it is loaded I want to remove the status bar.

Any Ideas??

starway · Oct 4, 2002

No, it's not possible to turn on/off any window feature (statusbar, toolbar, etc) after page is loaded.

You can try to do the following:
Place a layer with position at the bottom of your page with some "loading..." text. Add <body onload=""> function that will hide the layer:
document.getElementById(layername).style.visibility="hidden";

But, I don't see much sence in this. Just don't hide the status bar in window.open() and browser will do it itself.

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Hiding Status Bar after loading

shultz

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starway

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