Binding refers to an aspect of programming when a real value is assigned to a symbolic placeholder. The placeholder, which has reserved a memory location, becomes the recipient for the information. Data binding is a feature of a process called dynamic HTML, which distinguishes between data and the HTML that contains the data on web pages. Dynamic HTML has greatly sped up the process of downloading data from web pages.

In some computational processes, symbolic values or addresses can be added as placeholders to certain programming aspects, such as variables and instructions. When the program is bound--when objects are associated so as to permit the execution of commands--the binder functions to replace the symbolic placeholder values with the real values or addresses. This replacement process is termed bind time or link time.

Binding is accomplished by the binder. Also called a link editor or a linker, a binder...