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August 1, 2001 - DHTML Behavior Refresher

Yehuda Shiran August 1, 2001
DHTML Behavior Refresher
Tips: August 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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DHTML Behaviors are similar to libraries in other programming languages. A behavior is like a function that you can access via an API (Application Procedural Interface). It sports a set of properties and methods you can invoke for your particular object. DHTML behaviors were first introduced in Internet Explorer 5.0. Internet Explorer provides you a set of default behaviors. The behaviors LayoutRect and DeviceRect, for example, belong to this category of default behaviors. You can write behaviors of your own and put them in a ".htc"-extension file. To learn more about behaviors, go to Column 22, DHTML Behaviors and Column 23, More on DHTML Behaviors.