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When the user passes the mouse over a hyperlink, how can I place a message other than the URL in the browser's status bar?

Created May 4, 2012

John Zukowski

Use the onMouseOver event handler, as shown: 

<a 
  href="http://www.jguru.com/faq/JavaScript"
  onMouseOver="status='JavaScript FAQ'; return true">
    JavaScript FAQ
</a>