Web browser engine

A web browser engine (sometimes called layout engine or rendering engine) is a program that renders marked up content (such as HTML, XML, image files, etc.) and formatting information (such as CSS, XSL, etc.).

Description

A layout engine is typical component of web browsers, [[email clients[[, e-book readers, on-line help systems or other applications that require the displaying (and editing) of web content.

Engines may wait for all data to be received before rendering a page, or may begin rendering before all data are received.

This can result in pages changing as more data is received, such as images being filled in or a flash of unstyled content if rendering begins before formatting information is received.

See also

• Cascading Style Sheets
• Document Object Model
• HTML
• Image file
• Web browser
• XML
• XSL

External links

• Web browser engine @ Wikipedia