Recently viewed items display area

A non-transitory computer storage medium having computer executable instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform steps comprising:

• tracking items on at least one web page that a user has interacted with within a predetermined time period;
• determining the number of items on the at least one web page the user has interacted with within the predetermined time period;
• providing on a portion of the web page a display element in an expanded state in which a plurality of items the user has interacted with within the predetermined time period are displayed;
• automatically adjusting the size of the display element in the expanded state based on the number of items the user has interacted with within the predetermined time period;
• receiving input indicating that the display element in the expanded state should be reduced to a collapsed state;
• and
• in response to the input, automatically reducing the size of the display element to a collapsed state in which only a latest item is displayed in the display element in the collapsed state, the latest item being an item the user has interacted with more recently than any other of said plurality of items in the display element.

A non-transitory computer storage medium having computer executable instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform steps comprising:

• determining whether a user has interacted with at least one item;
• displaying a first-sized graphical element only after determining that at least one item has been interacted with by a user;
• displaying a plurality of items in the first-sized graphical element, the plurality of items including a latest item, the latest item being an item the user has interacted with more recently than any other of said plurality of items in the first-sized graphical element;
• receiving input indicating that the first-sized graphical element should be collapsed;
• and
• automatically reducing the size of the first-sized graphical element to form a collapsed graphical element so that only the latest item is displayed in the collapsed graphical element in response to the input.

A non-transitory computer storage medium having computer executable instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform steps comprising:

• tracking items on at least one web page that a user has interacted with within a predetermined period of time;
• determining whether the number of items on the at least one web page the user has interacted with within the predetermined period of time exceeds a maximum value;
• providing on a portion of the at least one web page a display container in an expanded state, the display container in the expanded state displaying all of a first set of items a user has interacted with within the predetermined period of time where the number of items in the first set of items is less than the maximum value, and the display container in the expanded state includes an interactive viewing portion which a user can interact with to view all of the first set of items the user has interacted with within the predetermined period of time where the number of items in the first set of items is greater than the maximum value;
• receiving viewing input indicating that the interactive viewing portion has been activated in such a manner that a latest item is not displayed in the display container in the expanded state, the latest item being interacted with by a user more recently than any other item in the display container;
• receiving collapsing input indicating that the display container in the expanded state should be reduced to a collapsed state;
• and
• in response to the collapsing input, automatically reducing the size of the display container to a collapsed state in which only the latest item is displayed in the display container in the collapsed state.