Hiding url in status bar

[somaskarthic]

Hi

In a php script , i'm passing some values as parameter in anchor tag attribute.
e.g <a href = "test.php?id=110&name=xyz&sno=oo8s7"...

On mouse over this link , these values are displayed in the status bar.
To avoid this , i add a small javascript which makes the statusbar message null.
It is working on mouseover event . But on mousedown event , it fails and displays the url with parameter in status bar.

I added the same script for onmouseover and onmousedown event. But it fails in onmousedown event .

<a href = "test.php?id=110&name=xyz&sno=oo8s7" onmouseover = "return hide_statusurl()" > -- This works for onmouseover.

But , the following works for onmouseover and not for onmousedown

<a href = "test.php?id=110&name=xyz&sno=oo8s7" onmouseover = "return hide_statusurl()" onmousedown = "return hide_statusurl()" >

Thanks in advance
-somas

[ronverdonk]

When you click you will always see it in the address field of your browser. If you don't want to show your URL parameters at all, you have to look at using something like cURL, which you can use to POST the variables.

See PHP documentation or other websites such as
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/php/
http://www.zend.com/pecl/tutorials/curl.php
http://www.phpit.net/article/using-curl-php/

Ronald :cool:

[iam_clint]

onmouseover="window.setTimeout('removestatus()',5);" onmousedown="window.setTimeout('removestatus()',5);"
<script>
function removestatus() {
window.status = '';
}
</script>
 

Use this on mouse over and on mouse down -- sets a timer it works how i figure you would want it to. put those in your link and wam your done -- that fixes the status i think ronverdonk didn't quite understand your original question.
By the way this should be in the javascript topic.

[somaskarthic]

Hi

OnMouse Over and on mouse down event on a link , its url with full parameters is displayed in the
status bar. Hence i tried to hide it using

window.timout(window.status="",3);

This Javascript routine working in Internet Explorer.
But OnMouseDown event not working in Mozilla.
I need a browser independent solution for this.

Pls post ur replies.

Thanks n advance
somas

[Banfa]

There isn't one. Access to the status bar is a browser implementation feature and allow web-pages to write to it is a security risk so the better browsers dont let that happen (like mozilla).