You can use the browser's status bar to give users extra information about the page that they're viewing. Here's an example of how to do it by using a JavaScript function to modify the status property of the window object in the browser's Document Object Model (DOM):
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Status Bar Example</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function message()
{
window.status = "Here is some sample text.";
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY ONLOAD="message()">
</BODY>
</HTML>