I noticed that, too. I would give a shot to window.status. It was handy during href="javascript:;" time.
2007/8/27, Dan Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am wondering if anyone has noticed the issue with jQuery's hover > function that makes it less than perfect for dropdown menus. Normally > most browsers display the href of the link in the status bar at the > bottom of the window when a user hovers that link. Because hover > suppresses the default onmouseover and onmouseout behaviors by > returning false for them for all children of the hovered element, it > breaks the default browser feature. Recently a client of mine > complained about this and I was wondering if anyone else has had this > problem, found a solution or workaround or anything of that sort. My > first reaction is to say that this is just what you have to trade away > to get a nicer hover event, but obviously it would be great to have > both. > Thanks. > > -- Dragan Krstić krdr http://krdr.ebloggy.com/