Chapter 19. Adding Dynamic HTML

When JavaScript, the Document Object Model, and Cascading Style Sheets are brought together on a single page, the result is often called Dynamic HTML. Ideally, using Dynamic HTML helps you create a page that responds to user input with special effects that can make your information engaging and entertaining, as well as informative.

Dynamic HTML varies somewhat from Web browser to Web browser, with Netscape and Microsoft in particular offering slightly different features. In this chapter we’ll spend most of our time looking at the Dynamic HTML elements that the two browsers have in common, focusing on using JavaScript and style sheets together to create pages that can change automatically.

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