This article is about web page code widgets. For other uses of widget, see
widget. A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate
HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional
compilation. They are derived from the idea of reusable code that has existed for years. Nowadays other terms are used to describe a web widget including: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets often but not always use
DHTML,
Adobe Flash or
JavaScript programming languages.
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