How to hide links on browser's statusbar when you mouseover on links on webpage?

Question

I am using Zend, PHP, AJAX, JQuery in my projects. Question is that how can I force to not display a link on browser's statusbar when I mouseover on a link on my webpage.

Best example is on this site, when you mouseover the up-vote link on this site, it does not show the link and after click the votes increased without refreshing the page.

Thanks

Answer 1

On Stack Overflow, you don't see an address, because it isn't a link (i.e. it isn't an anchor). It is a span, image or other element, with an onclick event handler.

This is the only way to guarantee no status-bar text in all browsers as the old-school JavaScript method of setting window.status = ""; has no effect in most browsers these days.

So, for example...

[Html]
<img id="clickme" src="myimage.png" alt="My Image" title="Vote">

[JavaScript (jQuery)]
$("#clickme").click(function() { alert("You clicked me"); });