What Is DHTML?
August 28th, 2008 by Click Consult
When it comes to web design, dynamic web pages are the preference of many a website owner and certainly many a website visitor. Dynamic elements can be added to existing HTML pages, or new pages can be developed using any of a number of dynamic scripts or programming languages. Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is basically a more advanced method of serving HTML pages to a user's browser and is not strictly speaking a new version of HTML.
HTML pages are said to be static because none of the elements of an HTML page can change until another request is sent to the web server by the user's browser. DHTML changes this and enables certain actions to demand changes without that request having to be sent. This can help in improving the user experience and offers more flexibility in both design and deployment.
HTML, or more accurately XHTML is still used to develop the web page itself. The most important consideration of XHTML is that it must be valid because other scripts and the DOM (Document Object Model) rely heavily on the XHTML code. Also similar to standard HTML pages, CSS (Cascdsing Style Sheets) are often used to control the look of a page and how the DHTML is handled.
The DOM is the section of a site that “communicates” with the DHTML and allows changes to be made on the page. More specifically, they offer a method of naming and specifying objects that can then be manipulated according to a script like Javascript or ActiveX. The overall result is a dynamic web page in place of a static one.
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Static page is the simple page of any site which is created by using HTML. Nowadays static page is most widely used to get idea how your site look. It is also user friendly page and anyone can simply understand it.
You can convert any static page into dynamic page by using the DHTML. As you know static page is created in HTML and you can insert or edit the HTML code with DHTML. By using the DHTML, site becomes more comfortable for design and maintenance.
XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is used to make webpage. It is not the new version or advanced version of HTML but it is cleaner version of HTML but the important thing of XHTML is that it must be valid.
CSS (cascading style sheet) is used to make up your site or get the better look for your site which is not possible by HTML but the coding of CSS looks like a HTML. One of the most striking features of CSS is that we can write layout of multiple web pages all at once.
Dom (Document Object Model) is very essential part to create any site because it defines the standards to access and manipulate the codes that are used to create your site such as JavaScript, DTML and ActiveX etc.