JavaScript Examples Bible - UserWorks Technologies

Chapter 2 ✦ Window and Frame Objects (Chapter 16)
newWind.document.write(output)
newWind.document.close()
}
// close subwindow, including ugly workaround for IE3
function closeWindow() {
if (isIE3) {
// if window is already open, nothing appears to happen
// but if not, the subwindow flashes momentarily (yech!)
newWind = window.open(“”,”subwindow”,”HEIGHT=200,WIDTH=200”)
}
if (newWind && !newWind.closed) {
newWind.close()
}
}
To complete the example of the window opening and closing, notice that the subwindow
is given a button whose onClick event handler closes the main window. In
Navigator 2 and Internet Explorer 3, this occurs without complaint. But in NN3+ and
IE4+, the user is presented with an alert asking to confirm the closure of the main
browser window.
defaultStatus
NN2 NN3 NN4 NN6 IE3/J1 IE3/J2 IE4 IE5 IE5.5
Compatibility ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Example
Unless you plan to change the default statusbar text while a user spends time at
your Web page, the best time to set the property is when the document loads. In
Listing 16-5, notice how I also read this property to reset the statusbar in an
onMouseOut event handler. Setting the status property to empty also resets the
statusbar to the defaultStatus setting.
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windowObject.defaultStatus