hide href in status bar but still link to it

Neil Partridge

All I have the following html

Listen Live On Mobile Listen Live On Desktop

What I want to do is hide the href attribute so this is not shown in the status bar, maybe show something else instead such as Listen Live. But then navigate to it if the user clicks on the link. I need to do this server side so the ip address cannot be viewed by viewing the source. Any suggestions??

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Akkiraju Ivaturi13y ago
Accepted answer
My first question to you is it developed in .NET? If so, I would suggest you to use the ASP:LinkButton which appears to be a hyperlink but the referred URL will be handled on the server side and the HTML rendered will never know the URL and so it will not be displayed on status bar. Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

Even when you view the source you will not see the reference URL but will be handled by javascript _doPostBack event as below:
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a id="ShowProducts_ctl02_LinkProducts" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ShowProducts$ctl02$LinkProducts','')">Product1a>
Akkiraju Ivaturi13y ago
Good to know that. Feel free to ask if you have any other questions.
Neil Partridge13y ago
cheers Akkiraju yep .NET