Google Toolbar and the Case of the Blanking Status Bar

When using CSS to place a background image on a link, the status bar in IE does not show the destination URL if the Google Toolbar is installed.

I love my Google Toolbar, and couldn't image broswing with out it. I was distressed to see that the Internet Explorer Status Bar flashes the destination URL and the returns to "Done" when mousing over a link that has a background image applied. Googling the problem revealed several tips about the "Check for newer versions of stored pages" setting and web server headers, but all to no avail.

I solved the problem by placing the links in a CSS-styles list and applying the background image to the <li> tag instead of the <a> tag.

Example coming soon ...