What Does Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Mean?

Techopedia Explains Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

In general, DHTML does not provide unique loading capability to Web pages with each user initiation, but it does provide dynamic elements, like drag-and-drop features, drop down menus and other sophisticated Web page interfaces. A basic DHTML characteristic is an object-oriented view of Web page elements and controls and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which are used to define Web page and website components. As an object-oriented Web design approach, DHTML allows developers to build many kinds of online games directly into Web pages.

Maintaining current terminology and conventions facilitate DHTML’s major coding challenge, which is that individual browsers require different parameters. Some browsers handle DHTML code better than others, but cross-browser capability remains a DHTML development issue.

Document Object Model (DOM) is an alternative to DHTML’s object-oriented model.