Arrayed "onMouseOver" Actions

JavaScript for Arrayed onMouseOver= calls

When you have a number of images and links for which you wish to display an alternate message in the status line, it will probably simplify things if you load those messages into an array and then use a function to execute the display.
Moving your cursor over the links below will implement the status line display from an array.
Infohiway Home Page / Microsoft® Home Page / Netscape® Home Page

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<TITLE>Arrayed "onMouseOver" Actions</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide from JS-Impaired Browsers
var flg=0;
var sep="                    Check out the ";
/* Here I've just loaded some messages in
   to an array that will be displayed on
   screen on the status line according to
   which link has been "mouseovered"  */
var msg=new Array();
msg[0]="Fuzzy Link Search Engine";
msg[1]="Latest from Microsoft";
msg[2]="Latest from Netscape";

/* If your flags are set to the same values
   as the order in which the links appear on
   your HTML page (commencing with 0) you can
   read the link value from browser memory
   using the document.links[x] call to still
   provide your visitor with the info that
   would have been displayed without the
   onMouseOver= call, i.e. the URL. Since
   old hands on the net don't like to click
   on a link for which they don't know the
   destination, this is a pretty good idea
   to implement in your own code.  */
function dispIt(){
 window.status=document.links[flg]+sep+msg[flg];
 }
// End Hiding -->
</SCRIPT>
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<P><B>JavaScript for Arrayed <FONT COLOR="blue">onMouseOver=</FONT> calls</B>
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<TR><TD>When you have a number of images and links for which you wish to display an alternate message in the status line, it will probably simplify things if you load those messages into an array and then use a function to execute the display.
<P>Moving your cursor over the links below will implement the status line display from an array.
<P><DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
<A HREF="http://www.infohiway.com/"
onMouseOver="flg=0; dispIt();
 return true;">
Infohiway Home Page</A> / 
<A HREF="http://www.msn.com/"
onMouseOver="flg=1; dispIt();
 return true;">
Microsoft® Home Page</A> / 
<A HREF="http://www.netscape.com/"
onMouseOver="flg=2; dispIt();
 return true;">
Netscape® Home Page</A></DIV></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
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