o  DHTML is not a standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). DHTML is a "marketing term" - used by Netscape and Microsoft to describe the new technologies the 4.x generation browsers would support.

o  DHTML is a combination of technologies used to create dynamic Web sites.

o  W3C once said: "Dynamic HTML is a term used by some vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated." 

DHTML Technologies

o  With DHTML, a developer can control how to display HTML components in a browser.

o  DHTML technology includes HTML 4.0, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Document Object Model (DOM)

o  HTML separates the presentation of the document from its structure.

o  CSS allows the developers to control the style and layout of multiple Web pages all at once.

o  The DOM defines a standard set of objects for HTML, and a standard way to access and manipulate HTML objects.

o  JavaScript allows to write code to control all HTML elements.