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It may be used to create small applications in a [[web browser]]: for example to ease navigation, to create interactive [[form (document)|form]]s or to create interactive exercises to use in [[e-learning]].

Competing techniques include [[Macromedia Flash]] for animation and [[SVGScalable Vector Graphics]] (SVG), though SVG isn't yet well-supported by the major web browsers.

Some disadvantages of DHTML are that it is difficult to develop and [[debug]] due to varying degrees of support among web browsers of the aformentioned technologies and that the variety of screen sizes means the end look can only be fine-tuned on a limited number browser/screen-size combinations. Development for recent browsers, such as [[Internet Explorer]] 5.0+, [[Netscape]] 6.0+, and [[Opera (browser)|Opera]] 7.0+, is aided by a shared [[Document Object Model]].

== External links ==

* [http://www.quirksmode.org/ -QuirksMode], Comprehensivea comprehensive site with test examples and instructions on how to write DHTML code which runs on several browsers

* [http://www.mahjongg.li Solitaire Mahjongg], -a Webweb game application coded in dynamic HTML

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