Patent ID: 9632986
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for horizontally paginating HTML content, the method including: receiving, at a web browser of a device and over a network, HTML content of dynamic length that is updated to include new HTML content; creating an article element that includes the received HTML content; setting a width of the article element to a width of the web browser; setting a height of the article element to a height of the web browser; setting a column width of the article element to the width of the web browser; splitting the HTML content into a plurality of pages based on the width of the web browser and the height of the web browser; generating a padding block of HTML content having a width equal to the width of the article element, having a height equal to the height of the article element, and having content to enable a user to return to a menu, appending the padding block of HTML content to the end of the HTML content to appear as an additional page; calculating a number of the plurality of pages based on a scroll width of the article element and the width of the web browser; and displaying a user element and one of the plurality pages in the web browser, the user element being based on the calculated number of the plurality of pages.