Status Bar URL Spoof Example


The URL of THIS LINK appears as www.google.com in the browser's status bar on mouseover, but onclick directs the browser to news.bbc.co.uk.


The link HTML is as follows:

<a href="http://www.google.com/" onclick="this.href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/'">THIS LINK</a>

Tested in Chrome 20.0, Internet Explorer 9.0, Firefox 6.0 and Safara 5.1.