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<audio> and <video> are older examples.

And of course <button type="submit">, <button type="reset">, annnnnd cough <a>.

There was <blink> and for some reason still <marquee> if you wanna consider animations dynamic.



Thanks, yeah, there are lots of examples of standard HTML features that wouldn't make any sense in a true static document DSL like LaTeX, or a paper document.

HTML is interactive and dynamic.


I was just augmenting your answer as I liked it! It was also sort of a response to my sibling responder as they didn't seem to get what you were saying.

EDIT: Oh wait, maybe they did now that I re-read it... maybe? I think it's time for bed.




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