Putting the "Dynamic" in Dynamic HTML with JavaScript

Everything you have read about so far in this chapter has largely been about how to create static content, so you might be wondering whether the term "Dynamic HTML" really applies. Now that you understand how to access style characteristics with JavaScript and how to use the <layer> element to position content, however, you are ready to see how you can use JavaScript to make your pages come alive. This section gives an overview of some of the many things possible with JavaScript, layers, and style information.

→ To learn more about the event model, see "The Netscape Navigator Event Model".

The capability to use JavaScript to create dynamic pages hinges on the Netscape browser object model, ...

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