1. Outline IS400: Development of Business Applications on the Internet Fall 2004 Instructor: Dr. Boris Jukic DHTML

2. Introduction Dynamic HTML Object Model – Allows Web authors to control the presentation of their pages – Gives them access to all the elements on their pages Web page – Elements, forms, frames, tables – Represented in an object hierarchy Scripting – Retrieve and modify properties and attributes

3. Object Referencing The simplest way to reference an element is by using the element’s id attribute. The element is represented as an object – XHTML attributes become properties that can be manipulated by scripting

4. Summary of the DHTML Object Model applets all anchors embeds forms filters images links plugins styleSheets scripts frames plugins collection body screen document history navigator location event document object window Key Fig. 13.10DHTML Object Model.

5. Summary of the DHTML Object Model