Chapter 14. Creating Active Web Pages
In this lesson, you will learn about some of the advanced scripting tools that can enhance your Web pages. You’ll also find some resources to help you learn more.
What Are Active Web Pages?
Normal HTML pages—everything you’ve created so far—are considered to be static. The page you create is the page that your visitors see, and (assuming that the pages are created without browser-specific code) all your visitors see the same thing.
Scripting languages and DHTML provide the capability to make any HTML element respond to user events, such as mouse clicks. This capability can be used for something as simple as displaying a menu of navigational choices when a word is clicked, to something as complex as a Web application, ...
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