Samples

	Internet Explorer 5 Demos Striped Tables DHTML Behavior
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	view source stripes.htc stripes.htm

Description

DHTML Behaviors are a new Internet Explorer 5.0 feature that enable developers to create reusable functionality that can use and extend the object model, and can easily be leveraged by page authors. DHTML Behaviors can be used to modify or extend the behavior of existing HTML tags, or to create tags with new functionality.

In the sample above, notice that the script that implements the striped tables effect is encapsulated in a separate file. Also notice that the striped tables behavior extends the object model, exposing two new properties: color1 and color2. To create a striped table, the page author simply adds class=stripes to the table declaration. Optionally, the page author can also specify the colors to be used. If no colors are specified, grey and white are used.

These new features of Dynamic HTML are supported in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Beta for Windows 95 and Windows NT.

Use the proposed new CSS behavior attribute to associate a behavior with a CSS class.