stopping onmouseover status bar messages

[z12]

Hi all,

One thing that really annoys me is when you move your mouse over a link and a message appears in the status bar as opposed to the real url.

Now I suppose the easy way to stop that is by disabling onmouseover, but with so many sites using drop down menus, I didn't want to go that route.

Also using a javascript status function like so:

Code:

function status() {return true}

Has its drawbacks also. The main effect this seems to have is nothing displays in the status bar, no message, no url.

Also I have seen sites that do:

Code:

onmouseover="status='msg';return true"

Which effectively replaces the status function.

As it turns out, if "return true" is used on a mouseover event, it tells the browser to prevent the default action, which for a link, is to show the url. So by eliminating "return true", the real url will be shown.

With that in mind,`here is the filter that I'm now using:

Code:

[Patterns]
Name = "Stop Link Hiding"
Active = TRUE
Bounds = "onmouse(out|over)\s+=$AV(*)"
Limit = 256
Match = "\1return\s*(?)\2(^*?)"
Replace = "\1\2"

This filter just removes the "return" statement. Image swapping & dropdown menus still function but the real url shows in the status bar.

For my filter setup, I placed this near the end & don't need "multi" enabled. Depending on your filters, you may need to enable "multi".

Comments Welcome
Mike