What’s ASP Programming?

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ASP programming enables dynamic database-driven content on websites without overloading the server. ASP files are written with HTML files and code changes only need to be made to ASP files. ASP files have .asp extension and ASP instructions are enclosed in special tags.

Active Server Pages (ASP) programming is writing code to facilitate ASP functionality on websites. This functionality includes the provision of dynamic database-driven content to website viewers without taxing the server-side system. ASP programming involves writing ASP files and HTML files. ASP code is inserted into HTML pages, enclosed in special tags. When you need to make code changes, you only need to change the ASP files; HTML files, which do nothing but fetch the encoding of ASP files, shouldn’t be changed.

ASP files have an .asp file extension, just like HTML files have .htm or .html file extensions. HTML files that contain ASP instructions enclose those instructions in tags that look like this: . Note that unlike HTML, the ASP end tag does not include a forward slash. To send the results of an ASP statement directly to a browser, add an equal sign:




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