The JavaScript Anthology 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

Dynamic HTML isn’t a single piece of technology that you can point to and say, “This is DHTML.” The term is a descriptor that encompasses all of the technologies that combine to make a web page dynamic: the technologies that let you create new elements without refreshing the page, change the color of those elements, and make them expand, contract, and zoom around the screen. DHTML uses HTML, the DOM, and CSS in combination with a client-side scripting language—JavaScript—to bring life to what was traditionally a static medium. In previous chapters, we learned that we can use JavaScript to manipulate parts of a page to achieve some very...