Name
Window.defaultStatus: the default status line text â JavaScript 1.0:
Synopsis
window
.defaultStatus
Description
defaultStatus
is a
read/write string property that specifies the default text that
appears in the windowâs status line. Web browsers typically use the
status line to display the browserâs progress while loading a file
and to display the destination of hypertext links that the mouse is
over. While it is not displaying any of these transient messages,
the status line is, by default, blank. However, you can set the
defaultStatus
property to specify
a default message to be displayed when the status line is not
otherwise in use, and you can read the defaultStatus
property to determine what
the default message is. The text you specify may be temporarily
overwritten with other messages, such as those that are displayed
when the user moves the mouse over a hypertext link, but the
defaultStatus
message is always
redisplayed when the transient message is erased.
The defaultStatus
property
has been disabled in some modern browsers. See Window.status
for details.
See Also
Window.status
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