Hide URL Loading In Status Bar???

Originally Posted by d60eba
As an aside, if you would like the status bar to display the link of your choice you can do the following:

1. Say the merchant is Merchant.com
2. Say you are using http://mysite.com/linkout/1 as the page with your PHP redirect

Make your link like this:

<a href='/linkout/1' name="http://merchant.com">Merchant Site</a>

Then at the bottom of the page add this javascript:

<script language="javascript">
_links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for(i=0;i<_links.length;i++) {
if(_links.name) {
_links.onclick = function() {
window.location = this.name;
return false;
};
_tmp = _links.href;
_links.href = _links.name;
_links.name = _tmp;
}
}
</script>

Of course, when they click the link they'll see it first go to your site then redirect, but by then it's too late ;-)

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