Re: window.status and frames

["Seth D. Palmer" <sdpalmer@panix.com>]

On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Vahan Yerkanian wrote:

> 
> Today I bumped into strange problem:
> 
> I got page with to frames, one acting as toc and another as content.
> So, thing I wanted that to overlap standart url location in status bar
> at bottom of window with custom messages. the code like
> 
> <A HREF="url" onMouseOver="window.status='message'">url</A>
> 
> works on non-frame page and fails on multi-frame one.
> 

It shouldn't work at all the way the code appears above. The line should 
read:

<a href="url" onmouseover="window.status='message'; return true">url</a>

That always seems to work for me, with or without frames.

Regards,
SETH