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Availability

JavaScript 1.0

Synopsis

window.defaultStatus

Description

defaultStatus is a
read/write string property that specifies the default text that will
appear in the window's status line. Web browsers typically use
the status line to display the browser's 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.

If you set defaultStatus for a Window object that
is a frame, the message you specify is visible whenever the mouse is
within that frame (regardless of whether that frame has focus). When
you specify defaultStatus for a top-level window
that contains no frames, your message is always visible when the
window is visible. If you specify defaultStatus
for a top-level window that contains frames, your message is visible
only when the mouse is over the borders that separate the frames.
Thus, in order to guarantee visibility of a message in a framed
document, you should set defaultStatus for all
frames in the document.

Usage

defaultStatus is used to display semipermanent
messages in the status line. To display transient messages, use the
status property.

See Also

Window.status