How to not make people see what the link is pointing to!

Hey All,

I am working on a few affiliate related websites, and want to know how can I make it like if people hover a link that they cannot see where the link is going to?

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards,


Klaas Koopman

 

Hide Status bar message

See:

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

 

<a href="http:\\someurl" 
 onmouseover="window.status='http://www.someURL.com';
return true;" 
onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" 
target="_blank">Some URL</a>

Code (markup):

This will display www someURL.com in IEs statusbar and it blank in FF.

 

Nice! No Head Script

 

Great Thanks guy!

 

Hello, Klass Koopman.
You could also choose to display some significant message in the status bar instead of a fake URL. Something like "Go buy this new product." Using JavaScript as shown you can display anything you want in the status bar.
Cheers.

 

Yeah I just noticed TechnoGeek, I will look at the code and see how I could use this to my benefit, thank you!

 

Really useful code! Thank you!

 

You do understand that it is impolite to mess with the functionality of a person's browser, right? Some people even consider that a website that hides a link address is being dishonest. Something to think about.

cheers,

gary