Dynamic HTML Behaviors
When Microsoft released Internet Explorer 4, one of the technologies that they introduced and supported was scriptlets, scripted components that could be included and reused in multiple documents. Just as style sheets give developers the ability to separate content from formatting information, scriptlets provide the capability to separate content from scripted functionality.
With Internet Explorer 5, Microsoft deprecated support for scriptlets in favor of Dynamic HTML behaviors. Similar to scriptlets, behaviors give you the ability to create simple components that can be used to provide specific functionality or behavior on a page. In this way, you can extend the functionality of the browser within a page but not clutter ...
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