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Dynamic HTML
or DHTML is a collection of technologies used together
to create interactive and animated web sites by using a
combination of a static markup language (such as HTML),
a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a
presentation definition language (Cascading Style
Sheets, CSS), and the Document Object Model.
A DHTML webpage is any webpage in which client-side
scripting changes variables of the presentation
definition language, which in turn affects the look and
function of otherwise "static" HTML page content, after
the page has been fully loaded and during the viewing
process. Thus the dynamic characteristic of DHTML is the
way it functions while a page is viewed, not in its
ability to generate a unique page with each page load.
By contrast, a "dynamic web page" is a broader concept —
any web page generated differently for each user, load
occurrence, or specific variable values. This includes
pages created by client side scripting, and ones created
by server-side scripting (such as PHP or Perl) where the
web server generates content before sending it to the
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