A Sample DHTML Page

Before discussing additional DHTML aspects, it would be useful if you visit a Web page that contains DHTML-based Web page code. When you access the following Web address, http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/default.asp, you'll see the Microsoft Web page shown in Figure 18.2.

Figure 18.2. A DHTML-based Web page looks like other Web pages at first.

The text at the left of the Web page is activated by DHTML code. As you point to each item on the left, the description in the center of the page changes to describe the item pointed to.

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Remember, no page reloading occurs when the page changes, because of DHTML elements. The ...

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