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Dynamic HTML or DHTML designates a technique of creating interactive web sites by using a combination of the static markup language HTML, a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript) and the style definition language Cascading Style Sheets.

It may be used to create small applications in a web browser: for example to ease navigation, to create interactive forms or to create interactive exercises to use in e-learning.

Competing techniques include Macromedia Flash for animation and 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 OperaOpera is a cross-platform internet software suite consisting of a web browser, e-mail/ news client, address book, newsfeed reader, IRC chat client, and download manager. It is actively developed by Opera Software of Oslo, Norway. Although Opera is closed 7.0+, is aided by a shared Document Object ModelDocument Object Model (DOM is a form of representation of structured documents as an object-oriented model. DOM is the official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for representing structured documents in a platform- and language-neutral manner..

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