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These references were compiled through a cooperative effort by Toby Brown, Jan Roland Eriksson and Sue Sims. Suggestions are welcome, as are critiques of any of the references listed.

Note: Using IE4 or IE5 in 'compatibility mode', dhtml demos linked here may not work as expected. Confirmation is welcome.

W3C References
Demo Pages
DHTML Menus
New (not organized) links
Books and Articles
Tutorials
Webreference.com Tutorials
Miscellaneous
Implementation Problems & Bug Reports
DHTML FAQ
Authoring/Editing Tools
Tutorials
Project Cool
Contact us

* W3C References *

The DOM Level 1 recommendation offers renewed hope that standardization will ameliorate cross browser implementation problems.
DOM Level 2

* Demo Pages *

Richard shares his [new !]creations
Demos from Andrew Starling, sure to entertain.
Dan Steinman's awesome collection
Including my favorite, the bee on the flower pot demonstration.
WDVL Demos
Load on Demand, an article by Shelley Powers explaining the benefit of cross browser objects for simplifying DHTML authoring.
Shelley Powers'site
I Shoppe offers interesting dhtml archives of its former look(s):
Oct-Dec '97
Jan-Mar '98
Apr-Jun '98
Jan-Apr '99
Netscape layers, Jul-Sep '97
Cloud Zone by webmaster, Dan Chick
A sliding castle, floating clouds, and a couple of angels brighten up this site devoted to the Christian music scene. Dan accomplishes animatation across Frames, and is understandably pleased.
Macromedia Superfly Fashions Demo
DHTML Demos from Jeff Rule

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* DHTML Menus *

HierMenus Central from webreference.com
Popout Menu from Jeff Rule.
Article and examples from wdvl.com (Aaron Weiss)
Dynamic Drop down menu from dynamicdrive.dom
Expandable Outlines from webreference.com

* Books and Articles *

DHTML zone from Macromedia
The creators of 'Dreamweaver' provide excellent articles from well known authors.
DHTML in IE4 - Webreference.com
Don't Let Dynamic HTML Take Off Without You - ZDnet
DHTML articles from Webreview.com
Absolute Positioning with CSS: Telling Your Page Where It's At
Beyond the Veil of Pure Design: Dynamic HTML Weds Buyer to Seller
Dynamic HTML Overview

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* Tutorials *

WDVL examines DOM
Webmonkey presents a series of DHTML tutorials by Taylor.
Day 1 - CSS-P Basics
Day 2 - Dynamic Scripting
Day 3 - Accessing the DOM with a minimum amount of conditionalization
Day 4 - User interface elements
Day 5 - Some common problems and workarounds
DHTML Zone Tutorials
Javertising DHTML Tutorial was so outdated as to be useless, so the link was removed - not to the archive, but to the recycle bin.
From Taboca.com
Taboca Illusionary Program
ArtworK Space
Layer Station
Taboca Entertainment Technology Connection
How To Make A Spray Effect With Layers
Entertainment Technology Connection
Taboca Layer
Project Cool Developer Zone
DHTML Demos
JavaScript, Layers and other examples

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* Tutorials from Webreference.com *

Webreference.com presents a 'Drag and Drop tutorial in two parts:
Drag and Drop, Part 1 - Netscape)
Drag and Drop, Part 2 - Cross Broswer
Dynamic images promises: expanding thumbnail images without leaving the web page presently loaded.

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* Miscellaneous *

dynamic.html newsgroup
Sponsored by Macromedia, an excellent forum for discussion of DHTML
Shelley Powers Solves Layers and Forms
Bitstream Dynamic Fonts
Dynamic Fonts-Microsoft

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* Problems in Implementation *

Microsoft Bug Report Form
Netscape Bug Report Form
Don't hesitate to use these to report undocumented bugs in these browsers.
Javascript Bugs

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* DHTML FAQ *

Microsoft's FAQ on Dynamic HTML.

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* Resources *

Dynamic HTML Lab from webreference.com
CSS-P Cross Reference Library
Cross Browser Javascript Reference
Scriptorium from webcoder.com
DHTML links from all-links.

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* DHTML from Project Cool *

DHTML from Project Cool

Search selected DHTML
Javascript operators
Javascript Objects
HTML Tag Quick Reference Guide
CSS Style Properties
HTML Basics: Choosing a Color

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* New Links *

Jeff Thies' 'Mr. Imagination' site.
Featuring the art of Mr. Imagination, Jeff's inclusion of drag and drop, widget scrolling, and visibility swapping combine for a most interesting dhtml page.
Geobranding demo and mini-tutorial, from NetRyder.
Dreamweaver directory of actions - from Andrew Woolridge.
Dreamweaver resources from the author of 'The Dreamweaver Bible'.
Absolute and Relative positioning, from Netscape.
Sue Ledoux presents a tutorial on CSS positioning (Microsoft)
ZD Net acticle discusses some DOM differences.
Filters, Fonts, and a Few Old Friends, is an article by Bryan McCormick covering filters, font embedding, and <ifame> in Internet Explorer.
Strange Pixels might be a premiere dthml resource, if most of the links weren't broken.
Dreamweaver Rollovers explained by Macromedia.
Dreamweaver's fan page by a frequent contributor to Macromedia's dhtml forum. Note: using Netscape, the above link re-directed - twice - so I have no idea where *you* might end up.
Microsoft (msdn) on Filters and Transitions
Simon White offers Dreamweaver resources and extensions.
Andrew Woolridge's Dreamweaver Depot.
DHTML Diner article:Browser-specific Style Sheets
From Webreference, an article on the CSS2 property, 'a:hover'.
Webreference demonstrates Background Image Resize in this article.
An Advanced HTML and DHTML forum from internet.com.
JavaScript Source, from internet.com, includes ~350 scripts.
From Flamingolingo, a mini-tutorial on dynamic styles.
From and for JavaScript novices, crib notes.
Measuring Element Dimension and Location, from Microsoft.
Christopher Thompson maintains a meta-FAQ for comp.lang.javascript newsgroup.
Martin Webb mainaints the penultimate JavaScript FAQ.
Also included are CSS articles
and DHTML articles.
For example, Dynamic Table Sorting
and a Fancy Background Fader.
The tutorial, Moving elements in DHTML is well worth reading.
Microsoft Layers? Martin shows how. (IE)
What's so dynamic about dynamic html?
Dynamic Dropdown Menus
Developer.com offers Behaviors (IE).
Webreference presents a table of Netscape Navigator 4 Event object properties.
Also from webreference, Dynamic Tooltips.
Doc JavaScript covers Pop-out elements.
Look up lists from Doc JavaScript.
Webreference article on the cross browser event model.
NN/IE compatibility, by Webreference.
How to use external source ,from Dan Steinman
The problems of Forms and layers are discussed in an article by Dan Steinman.
Web Developer's Virtual Library presents a tutorial on JavaScript Events.
DHTML authoring for Web TV and JavaScript for Web tv.
Everything you never wanted to know about forms
Form Tricks
Disabling Form Elements
Affecting Presentation...(Jukka Korpela)

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