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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

by David Flanagan
August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1018 pages
34h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Window.status: specify a transient status-line message — JavaScript 1.0:

Synopsis

String status

Description

status is a read/write string property that specifies a transient message to appear in the window’s status line. The message generally appears only for a limited amount of time, until it is overwritten by another message or until the user moves the mouse to some other area of the window, for example. When a message specified with status is erased, the status line returns to its default blank state or to the default message specified by the defaultStatus property.

At the time of this writing, many browsers have disabled scripting of their status lines. This is a security measure to protect against phishing attacks that hide the true destination of hyperlinks.

See Also

Window.defaultStatus

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