Hiding URLs in the status bar of any browser...

[WebMaster]

Today, I saw my status bar is showing the actual URL, when I opened a site in my browser. I thought, Ah, What's this ! Can this be hidden? I googled and saw some interesting JavaScript code to hide the display of those URLs in status bar of any browser. I thought you must also know this technique...
Actually this URL display occurs in your status bar when your mouse comes over a link (hover position of a mouse over a link), This is a very useful technique if you want to display a different URL instead of actual URL in any browser's status bar.

Assume for the link: www.etdsonline.com, if i would place a link the html code will be -

<a href="www.etdsonline.com" target="_blank" onMouseOver="window.status='http://www.etdsonline.com/news'; return true" onMouseOut="window.status=''">eTDS TechnoSys</a>

The above html code will display http://www.etdsonline.com/news instead of the actual url http://www.etdsonline.com.

To change the status bar text of the the link in Firefox and Safari you’ve to just use a small technique with the help of “href” and “Onclick” attribute of the hyper-link. Let’s look at the this technique step by step:

1. First of all make a JavaScript function exactly as shown below:
   

   <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
   function redirect(URL)
   {
   document.location=URL;
   return false;
   }
   </script>

   
   
2. Now, define the hyper-link with the status bar text in href attribute and call the above function from onClick attribute of the link like below:
   
   

   <a href="http://www.etdsonline.com" onclick="return
   redirect('http://www.etdsonline.com/news');">eTDS TechnoSys</a>

Please note that this technique will not work if JavaScript has been disabled in the browsers, but don't worry most of the browsers today have JavaScript enabled.