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"I am the Question Man"

Ok here we go again. Another question for all you clever people.

I'll start off by apologising - the other two questions i asked, I should have looked into first and when I did I found the answers pretty easily. I'm sorry I spammed up the forum.

But this time I spent the best part of an hour looking for what I wasnt and I couldn't find it, namely because I don't know what it's called.

You see the little bar down there next to the taskbar? (Internet Explorer) The one with the progress bar and on the left says 'Done' ? Well I've seen some websites have little messages that come up there. Please brace yourselves as I once again ask a question -

Has anyone got the scripty code for doing this?

*runs*

RiCkOsS wrote:
>

You missed out a semi-colon:



That code won't clear the status bar when you onMouseOut though. Use my script below for that.

Twain wrote:
> I just trie Rickoss' method and it doesn't seem to work. I get an
> Error message in the status bar and the effect doesn't do anything. I
> hget the default status working okay, but the onmouseover status
> message doesn't work. I get the URL of the target location with a
> yellow exclamation point.

Hmmm, the onmouseover status seems to work on my site. www.review-central.cjb.net (no one say a word, it may look naff but it's for practicing scripts :-))

Maybe I typed it out wrong :\

Twain wrote:
> Nimco wrote:
> How many of the big sites do you know who do that?
>
> Download.com does it.

It does? Not on the home page? What page?

Twain wrote:
> I just trie Rickoss' method and it doesn't seem to work. I get an
> Error message in the status bar and the effect doesn't do anything. I
> hget the default status working okay, but the onmouseover status
> message doesn't work. I get the URL of the target location with a
> yellow exclamation point.

Try this, I know this works:

Home

Nimco wrote:
> How many of the big sites do you know who do that?

Download.com does it.

I just trie Rickoss' method and it doesn't seem to work. I get an Error message in the status bar and the effect doesn't do anything. I hget the default status working okay, but the onmouseover status message doesn't work. I get the URL of the target location with a yellow exclamation point.

mess wrote:
> I just want something like;
>
> :: www.nintendoedge.com ::
>
> in the status bar. Not for a mouseover, I want it constantly there.
> Sorry my original question was poorly worded. Any ideas?

Like Ricky said:



But like rob said, it will make your site look very amateurish.... How many of the big sites do you know who do that?

That's what the default status is for.

I just want something like;

:: www.nintendoedge.com ::

in the status bar. Not for a mouseover, I want it constantly there. Sorry my original question was poorly worded. Any ideas?

It's better to see the actual url at the bottom so users know where they are going.

Oh and what ever you do don't do the scrolling marquee!