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Citronic27
02-13-2006, 07:07 PM
I was wondering (and hoping) there was a way to change the text that is displayed in the grey bar (just above the Windows taskbar, in standard display mode that is) when you hover the mouse over a link. I've tried googling, but haven't had much success, since the necessary keywords, like the name of the grey bar, I don't know and goole doesn't like long sentences.

I thought it could be more useful for some info about the site being linked to, instead of a URL.
a/k
02-13-2006, 08:21 PM
Is this what you mean?

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/597/untitled7iy.jpg

I know there is for sure, if that's what your talking about. It's a JavaScript, that's all I know. I'll see if I can find it.
Citronic27
02-13-2006, 08:46 PM
Yeah, that's it!
a/k
02-13-2006, 08:53 PM
Ok, I'm getting close. Found this, not really what you wanted but it's close. It's pretty cool actually..

http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/coord.shtml

You need IE to view it properly.

Found it, kind of. Check it out.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut28.shtml

Ok, Found it.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/cut11.shtml

And here's another

http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/statusto.shtml

Hope that helps. And you need IE to view all of these, none of them work in Firefox.
Citronic27
02-14-2006, 06:22 AM
Thanks man, but I don't think any of those are quite what I'm looking for.

I'm after text that is displayed specifically when you hover the mouse over a specific link i.e. text that appears in the place of the url the link will take you to, if you click.

I have seen the 'Welcome to my website' type text before.

Thanks for your help though.

Can anyone help?
JustinJJ
02-14-2006, 08:55 PM
I can kind of help you I guess, no not really. Odds are you already know about this, but if you use the following syntax:

<a href="url" title="title">text</a>

That way when you hover your mouse over the link a little box will form (those little tan boxes right near the link when you hover over it). Whatever content you have for "title" will appear in the box.

For example, copy this into notepad and save it as .htm file.

<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaminondas#Early_career" title="Information on Epaminondas's early career">Epaminondas</a>
</body>
</html>

View the file in your browser and place the mouse over the link and you'll see the box with the title text.