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DHTML is the art of making HTML pages dynamic!DHTML is a combination of technologies used to create dynamic and interactive Web sites.To most people DHTML means a combination of HTML, Style Sheets and JavaScript.

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Introduction to DHTML

What you should already know

Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following:

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HTML

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CSS

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JavaScriptIf you want to study these subjects first, find the tutorials on our Home Page.

DHTML is NOT a W3C Standard

DHTML stands for

ynamic

HTML

.DHTML is not a standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). DHTML is a "marketing term" -used by Netscape and Microsoft to describe the new technologies the 4.x generation browsers wouldsupport.DHTML is a combination of technologies used to create dynamic Web sites. To most people DHTML means a combination of HTML 4.0, Style Sheets and JavaScript.W3C once said:

"Dynamic HTML is a term used by some vendors to describe the combination of HTML, stylesheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated."

DHTML Technologies

With DHTML a Web developer can control how to display and position HTML elements in a browser window.

HTML 4.0

With HTML 4.0 all formatting can be moved out of the HTML document and into a separate

style sheet

.Because HTML 4.0 separates the presentation of the document from its structure, we have total control of presentation layout without messing up the document content.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

With CSS we have a style and layout model for HTML documents.CSS was a breakthrough in Web design because it allowed developers to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once. As a Web developer you can define a style for each HTML element and applyit to as many Web pages as you want. To make a global change, simply change the style, and all elements inthe Web are updated automatically.

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