Hiding the URL of links?

[Lyle Christine]

Is it possible to hide the URL of links?

What I mean is, when the mouse pointer is placed over a link, the link location appears on the bottom left hand side of the browser.

Is it possible to hide the location, or even have something else diplayed?

I've seen text scroll along there before.

Thanks for any help!

Lyle

 

[Rowan W]

First of all, why would you want to hide the link?

Secondly:

<a href="Doesn't matter" onMouseDown="parent.location='url.htm'">

 

[Lyle Christine]

Well, I'm hosting a secondary site on my primary site with a masked short url (vze.com) so it makes it look better if the actual address isn't shown.

But I'm having trouble with that code, is there any chance you could maybe expand on it, simply inserting it doesn't seem to give even a test result.

For isntance, one link is the word 'Contact' which obviously links to a contact page. Would the code for that be:

<a href="Contact" onMouseDown="parent.location='actuallocationofcontactpage.htm'">

Thanks

 

[Rowan W]

Sorry, I should have tested it first.

This will work: <a href="http://www.****inggoogleit.com" onMouseOver="window.status='';return true">How to Search</a>

 

[little_china]

this should work

<a href="http://www.aaa.com" onMouseOver="(window.status='REPLACE THIS TEXT FOR TITLE'); return true">http://www.aaa.com/</a>