Displaying subheadings and hyperlinks in a scrollable long document
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRabindranath Dutta, Kamal Chandrakant Patel
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRabindranath Dutta, Kamal Chandrakant Patel
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The system, method and program of the invention displays portions of a long document in a limited viewing area of a display on a client machine. As a Web browser retrieves a requested document from a server, the Web browser parses the document for tags identifying any headings, hyperlinks, images, or other document components. A portion of the document is displayed in conjunction with a scroll bar. In response to receiving a designated user action, such as a right mouse click within the scroll bar area, a list of the identified document components are displayed. In response to receiving a user selection of one of the document components within the list, another portion of the document containing the selected document component is displayed. The list is removed from the display when the other portion of the document is displayed in response to the user selection or if a user action outside of the list area is received.
A method for displaying portions of a long document in a limited viewing area of a display on a client machine, comprising:
A computer system having a limited viewing area display for displaying portions of a long document, comprising:
A computer program having computer readable program code means on a computer usable medium, comprising:
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