320994 - JavaScript command window.status=.. not working at OnMouseOver in td element

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256204

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[gerhard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

URL http://www.selten.de:
At onMouseOver over the left-side menue (td-elements), the next page is shown only in the status bar, if the mouse is above the text (which is a link to the next page), but not for the rest of cell. 
  
This menue is created using table elements:
e.g. 2nd line:
"<tr><td class="pasout1" height="27" onMouseOver="tdovr(this)" onMouseOut="tdout(this)" onClick="clck(this)"><img src="../img/transp.gif" alt="" border="0" height="10" width="20"><a class="menpas1" href="../info.php">Aktuelles</a></td></tr>"

The function used by the onMouseOver event:
function tdovr(obj)
{
  switch(obj.className) 
  {
    case "pasout1": obj.className="pasovr1"; obj.firstChild.className="menovr1"; window.status=obj.firstChild.href; break;
  }   
}



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.selten.de
2.move mouse over text of menue-element
3.move mouse outside text of menue-element

Actual Results:  
At step 3 the next page is no longer shown in the status line

Expected Results:  
At step 3 the next page should be shown in the status line

problem was present already in the older editions of Firefox.

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256204 ***