Matt, Why not simple keep the link pointing to the real target and having jQuery override the default link? It will keep the status bar pointing to the correct location and this way your code degrades gracefully and SEO is held intact. Same reply I sent to an early question about click tracking: Then in your jQuery on load:
// this would be a link to your server side tracking var trackURL = 'http://www.mywebsite.com/tracking/?trackbyURL= <http://www.mywebsite.com/tracking/?trackbyURL=> ' // override the default click event $(".advert").click(function(){ window.location = trackURL + $(this).attr('href'); return false; }); -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Quackenbush Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [jQuery] Alter Status Message Hello, I have a redirect page, but would like to change the status bar message to show only the target link, rather than the full URL. So, links that hit the redirect page are formed like so: http://mydomain.com/redirect.cfm?DURL=http://www.realtarget.com/realpage .htm What I want to actually show in the status bar is: http://www.realtarget.com/realpage.htm I was confident that I could easily handle such a task by throwing together a quick little jQuery-powered script, and here's what I came up with: $(document).ready(function() { $("#main #welcome a").hover( function() { var href = $(this).attr('href'); var a1 = href.split("DURL="); if (a1 != href) { window.status = a1[1]; } } ); }); On mouseover, the status bar display is not affected. On mouseout, FireBug reports the following error message: g has no properties handleHover(mouseout clientX=0, clientY=0 )jquery-packed.js (line 1) e( mouseout clientX=0, clientY=0)jquery-packed.js (line 1) e ()jquery-packed.js (line 1) <chrome://firebug/content/blank.gif> eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,r){e=function(c){return(c<a?'':e(parseInt(c/a))) +((c=c%a... Any tips/pointers steering me in the right direction would be most appreciated. :) Thanks, Matt
