Changing status text for links in an iframe?

[whtan]

Hello,

I have 2 websites, and I show the content for one site in an iframe with the other. I wish to use onmouseover so that the status text does not display the URLs when I mouseover the links in the iframe.

How can I accomplish this?

I tried the following but it hasnt worked. The status bar still shows the link URLs.

var links = document.frames['myframe'].document.links;
for (var i=0,len=links.length; i < len; i++) {
	links[i].onmouseover = blankStatus;
	links[i].onmouseout = blankStatus;
}
return true;
}
function blankStatus() { window.status=""; return true; }

Any help is much appreciated!

Andy

[Leprakawn]

Andy:

Give this a shot

<a href="" onmouseover="window.status='I do not want you to see the URL!!!';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';">

[whtan]

Hello,

Thanks for the response. This is a bit more complicated than I originally thought

I am promoting another website by showing their content in an Iframe, but I do not have access to the HTML to simply add onmouseover to each link.

And there are 2 levels of Iframes.

Domain A
   contains Domain B (in Iframe 1)
     which contains a table from Domain B (in Iframe 2)

A user can click on links in Iframes 1 and 2 which updates the contents in Iframes 1 and 2.

I do not want to display the status text for any links in the Iframes. Is this possible?

I made an initial attempt but seem to also run into "Access denied" errors when trying to access the DOM for Domain B in the Iframe.

Quite a conundrum. Would appreciate any assistance if it is indeed solvable

Andy

[Leprakawn]

Well, can you remove the status bar from your page? Either that, or start marking your visitors' monitors with white out.

[Deadeye]

I prefer Leppys 2nd option with the whiteout.

I dont believe there is anyway unless you had access to there code directly.

[curtiss]

First of all, there is no way, AFAIK, to make the window.status thing work cross-browser.

Secondly, I believe there is a way to use javascript to dynamically change the way the links are written inside the iFrame, but I was unsuccessful in making it work this afternoon when I played with it for a couple minutes.

Basically, you would do something along the lines of:

var f=window.frames['MyFrame'].document.links;
var i=f.length;
while(i--){
f[i].onmouseover='window.status = "you have moused over"';
}

[Allen]

interesting post - first, do they even sell whiteout anymore?

second - nice job curtiss as usual!