Remove status bar on IE8

Question

there is any way to remove status bar from IE8 browsers using javascript or jquery or someting else.

Thank you!

What's wrong with your scrollbar? It is a browser thing, your side can't control it (save for very few cases such as when opening popups in some browsers). — Fabrício Matté, Mar 20 '13 at 14:15
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3299253/cant-hide-status-bar-when-doing-windows-open-on-ie8 — Maen, Mar 20 '13 at 14:15
I have few javascript warnings that are displayed on status bar of IE8 and I don't want my client to see that :D — BurebistaRuler, Mar 20 '13 at 14:25
Why do you want to remove that status bar? IMHO, that's horrible design. — Tyler Crompton, Mar 20 '13 at 14:36
@Tyler Crompton :))) try to make IE 8 to render css3 after that you could say what you want ;) that warning is annoying and does not have any impact on my app. — BurebistaRuler, Mar 20 '13 at 14:51
So you are trying to hide it because of a warning about CSS 3. I'm not *that* familiar with IE, but it sounds like you need to code your application to not use CSS 3 when in IE 8 or less. Look up conditional IE tags (or whatever they call it). — Tyler Crompton, Mar 20 '13 at 19:35
@Tyler Crompton As I already said there is a library through which you can make IE8 to render css3 unfortunately sometimes you receive this annoying warnings ... and because of that I need to remove or disable that status bar on IE. — BurebistaRuler, Mar 21 '13 at 06:51
Just, don't. Users don't like it when you mess around with their stuff. It sounds like you have a faulty library. — Tyler Crompton, Mar 21 '13 at 13:54

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 20 '13 at 14:15

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The window.open method accepts optional arguemnts allowing you to disable the status bar in IE

window.open('/yourpage.html','_blank','status=no');

(opens yourpage.html in a new window with no status bar)

Note, this will only work in trusted sites.

If your site isn't trusted, the user would have to explicitly enable the

Allow Websites to open windows without address or status bars

In internet site zone security setting

answered Mar 20 '13 at 14:15

Nice option , unfortunately this is not helping me very much :| because I have tabs that are accessed and not a simple page :| I already used your suggestion and status bar is there in browser with No but still displayed. – BurebistaRuler Mar 20 '13 at 14:27
@burebistaruler in that case what you're asking for is impossible without action on the user's side. I'm sorry. If you find a creative solution let me know. – Benjamin Gruenbaum Mar 20 '13 at 15:03
@burebistaruler I would appreciate if if you did __not__ accept this answer for a while so more users would get the chance to see it. This way if such a way under your constraints _does_ exist (According to the documentation it does not) we'll get a better answer. – Benjamin Gruenbaum Mar 20 '13 at 15:34

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