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OnMouseDown in IE6

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ggriffit

ggriffit

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Dear All,
am trying to override the status bar message shown for a link as my client wants a custom message ALL the time, the following code seems to work for all events except OnMouseDown, any ideas ? needs to work with IE6 only :

Code: 
<html>
	<head>
		<script>	
			function clearStatus()
			{
				window.status="GREG";
			}
			function clearStatus2()
			{
				window.status="GRIFFITHS";
			}	
		</script>
	</head>
	<body>
		<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.greggriffiths.org"[/URL] 
		onmousedown="clearStatus()"
		onmouseup="clearStatus()" 
		onmouseover="clearStatus()" 
		onmouseout="clearStatus()" 
		onclick="clearStatus()" 
		onmouseclick="clearStatus()" 
		onmousedblclick="clearStatus()" 
		onmousemove="clearStatus()" 
		onmouseenter="clearStatus()" 
		onmouseleave="clearStatus()" 
		>TEST</a>
		<p>
		<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/"[/URL] 
		onmousedown="clearStatus2()" 
		onmouseup="clearStatus2()" 
		onmouseover="clearStatus2()" 
		onmouseout="clearStatus2()" 
		onclick="clearStatus2()" 
		onmousedblclick="clearStatus2()" 
		onmousemove="clearStatus2()" 
		onmouseenter="clearStatus2()" 
		onmouseleave="clearStatus2()" 
		>TEST2</a>
		<p>
	</body>
</html>

Greg Griffiths
Livelink Certified Developer & ECM Global Star Champion 2005 & 2006
 
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The only way I can suggest is to use a timer to override the status message after IE has written out its default string:

Code: 
<html>
<head>
	<script type="text/javascript">
		function clearStatus() {
			window.status = 'GREG';
		}

		function clearStatus2() {
			window.status = 'GRIFFITHS';
		}

		function clearStatusDelay() {
			window.setTimeout(clearStatus, 50);
		}

		function clearStatusDelay2() {
			window.setTimeout(clearStatus2, 50);
		}
	</script>
</head>

<body>
	<p>
		<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.greggriffiths.org"[/URL]
			onmousedown="clearStatusDelay()"
			onmouseup="clearStatus()"
			onmouseover="clearStatus()"
			onmouseout="clearStatus()"
			onclick="clearStatus()"
			onmouseclick="clearStatus()"
			onmousedblclick="clearStatus()"
			onmousemove="clearStatus()"
			onmouseenter="clearStatus()"
			onmouseleave="clearStatus()"
		>TEST</a>
	</p>

	<p>
		<a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.greggriffiths.org/livelink/"[/URL]
			onmousedown="clearStatusDelay2()"
			onmouseup="clearStatus2()"
			onmouseover="clearStatus2()"
			onmouseout="clearStatus2()"
			onclick="clearStatus2()"
			onmousedblclick="clearStatus2()"
			onmousemove="clearStatus2()"
			onmouseenter="clearStatus2()"
			onmouseleave="clearStatus2()"
		>TEST2</a>
	</p>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps,
Dan



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