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If we move our mouse over active link it will shown up the link address in windows status bar (fig.1). Now we can change this habbit to shown up in status bar as we like. This is perfectly for hide real address, maybe to hide your referral link

Normal Status Bar When Hover a Mouse to An Active Link

Normally, if we want to make an active link we’ll set like this

<a href=”http://google.com”>Link</a>

Now with javascript we change a little bite to

<a href=”#” onclick=”goToURL()”>Link</a>

Now it’s javascript part

<script>
function goToURL() { window.open("http://google.com/"); }
</script>

It will open Google in new window. If you prefer to open in the same window, you can change this code into

<script>
function goToURL() { window.location = "http://google.com/";  }
</script>

Just set any URL like in the javascript code. Now your status bar will look like this if any mouse over this link.

Hidden Link in Window Status Bar

And this is a whole code in single file.

<a href="#" onclick="goToURL()">Links Open in NEW window</a>
 
<script>
function goToURL() { window.open("http://google.com/"); }
</script>
<br /><br />
<a href="#" onclick="goToURL2()">Links Open in SAME window</a>
 
<script>
function goToURL2() { window.location = "http://google.com/"; }
</script>