Only in the same way that people still use terms incorrectly. DHTML was the progenitor for the editing of styles on DOM objects that we do today. It has a speci

Only in the same way that people still use terms incorrectly. DHTML was the progenitor for the editing of styles on DOM objects that we do today. It has a specific meaning. Depending on how you did the form validation (highlighting input fields, or revealing error messages, rather than using an alert box or performing the validation on the server and generating a new page), it absolutely could have been DHTML.