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What is the status bar?
The status bar is the box at the bottom of the browser window. The status
bar can show a few different bits of information. The main use of the status bar is to show the progress of the
loading of web pages into the browser window. When you click on a hypertext link, the browser loads that URL into
the location bar, and the status bar then shows the speed of the connection between
your computer and the server where the web page is stored, and it also shows how much of the page is loaded. Once
the complete page has been loaded into the browser window, the status bar becomes blank again.
Another use of the status bar is that it shows the URL of a hypertext
link when the cursor is over the link. For example, if you place the cursor over any of the links on the left
of this page, the actual URL will appear in the status bar.
In addition to these two functions of the status bar, javascripts can use the
status bar to display information as well. One example would be a message that scrolled across the status bar like
a marquee. The javascript quizzes on my English 50B website
use the status bar to reveal the results of the right and wrong answers.
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