- basic scripting -

       Introduction
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I'm glad that you've decided to make that leap into dHTML. (Actually, it's more like leaping in front of a train, but I don't want to scare you off, now do I?) It's hazardous, and requires some hard work, but in the end, you'll be glad you learned dHTML. First of all, why would you want to learn dHTML? Well, if you don't know all ready, dHTML can do some really neat stuff. You can find a lot of things on the front page of this website.

To start off, you need to know at least what dHTML stands for. It's dynamic Hyper-Text Markup Language. So, it's just HTML with a dynamic shoved in front of it. And dynamic? The defenition straight from the dicitonary is:

relating to or tending toward change or productive activity

Notice I bolded some of the defenition. Tending toward change. That means you have some HTML. Then, by using dHTML, you change it's physical properties, or it's looks. dHTML is HTML that is changing or moving.

Now for the technical defention of dHTML. Changing CSS properties of an object through JavaScript. Makes no sense? That's okay. It's the technical defenition. It's not supposed to make any sense.

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  1. Introduction
  2. What, Exactly, is it?
  3. The [object]
  4. Detecting Browsers
  5. Accessing Properties
  6. Making a Script
  7. Making the Script in Netscape
  8. What to Change?
  9. Creating a Menu
  10. Scripting the Menu
  11. The Netscape Menu
  12. Last Words