How to display information at the status bar of browser?

Question

How can I change the text displayed in the status bar of a web browser using javascript?

jQuery can be used as well.

Answer 1

use

window.status = "whatever you want"

Answer 2

jQuery is not necessary to do this:

<script>
function writetostatus(input){
    window.status=input
    return true
}
</script>

However, most newer browsers prevent you from setting the text in the status bar from JavaScript.

Answer 3

First of all, its appearence is not uniform throughout browsers, and secondly, that functionality has been disabled for a long time by default on most browsers for security reasons.

Anyway, the javascript for doing that is a simple window.status = "my text"