What is Dynamic HTML or DHTML ?
DHTML stands for Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language, also known as Dynamic HTML. DHTML was introduced by Microsoft in 1997 when the fourth version of Internet Explorer (IE) was released.
DHTML is not a programming language, but it is not a markup language like HTML or XML. However, it combines many features of web development technologies. It is typically used to create dynamic and interactive web pages. Some web browsers used DHTML terms to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets, and client-side scripts (JavaScript, VBScript, or any other supported scripts) that enabled the creation of interactive and animated documents.
DHTML is used to create animated and interactive web pages that are generated in real-time, also known as dynamic web pages so that when such a page is accessed, the code within the page is analyzed on the web server and the resulting HTML is sent to the client’s web browser.
It also makes use of Scripting and it is also part of earlier computing trends. DHTML allows different scripting languages in a web page to change their variables, which enhances the effects, looks, and many other functions after the whole page have been fully loaded or under a view process, or otherwise static HTML pages on the same. But in true ways, there is nothing that is dynamic in DHTML, there is only the enclosing of different technologies like CSS, HTML, JS, DOM, and different sets of static languages which make it as dynamic.
Components of Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
HTML: HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, a client-side markup language. Building the blocks for your website is very important.
JS: JS stands for JavaScript, which is quite different from Java. JS client-side scripting language. JS is supported by most web browsers and also has a collection of cookies to determine user requirements and store user information to provide a better user experience.
CSS: CSS is Cascading Style Sheets. It is used for website design and helps in website design. CSS rules in DHTML are modified at various levels using JS and event handlers. This adds tons of dynamics with very little code.
DOM:- The Document Object Model that acts as the weakest link in it. The only problem with this is that most web browsers don’t support the DOM (Document Object Model). This is how you work with static content.