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Feb 19.2008

Hi
The problem I have is that I want to hide the information that a link shows when hovering on it , at the bottom part of a web page.
Instead I would like this part to show a fixed message, the same for all the different links.
I’ve been told to do it using Javascript, but I don’t know how.

Here is a link with an image to show what I want to do exactly.

[url]http://cv.uoc.edu/~agassent/web/imagenes/hide.gif[/url]
Thank you.

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@bathurst_guyFeb 19.2008 — Try searching window.status

From what I recall it no longer works on IE7 and Firefox, not certain on that but I just remember that having the status bar changed annoys me and I leave the website.
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@KorFeb 19.2008 — That "bottom part" is called [B]status bar[/B]. Well, the status bar in browsers has a good and useful role: it shows the user what real url lays behind a HTML link. Now, that role [I]should not[/I] be changed or suppressed. As a user I want to see where a link could drive me, if I decided to click on. If I see no URL or if I see something else, I definitely do not give it a click, as I suspect there is not a trusty address behind.

Anyway, Mozilla browsers (and IE7 I think) will not permit the status bar modifying.
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@anagrauthorFeb 19.2008 — The reason why I want this status bar to show nothing or something different from the URL is because this map belongs, not to a web, but to my classes; it's part of an exercise in which each location leads to a different secret number which will lead to one or other activity; if my students can see that secret number, it's no longer secret, and the exercise would lose all its interest.

You see, it's not that I want to hide important information, but because it's a game, an educational game.
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@KorFeb 19.2008 — Use javascript to move to another activity page:
<i>
</i>&lt;map&gt;
&lt;area href="#" onclick="location.href='activity01.html'" ...&gt;
&lt;area href="#" onclick="location.href='activity02.html'" ...&gt;
...
&lt;/map&gt;

Now the status bar will show the [I]local url[/I]+#, not the "activity01.html" or "activity02.html" ...
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@anagrauthorFeb 19.2008 — Thank you Kor and bathurst for your help.
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