Patent ID: 8271866

Claim:
A method for reducing the display size of a table, rendered in a web page, comprising: receiving the web page, having the table, at a web browser application being run on specifically a client computer connected to the Internet; identifying a table structure tag in a hyper text markup language in the web page, the table structure tag being for a column or a row in a table; determining whether the table structure tag meets a criteria for being hideable; responsive to determining that the table structure tag meets the criteria for being hideable, adding a control into the table structure tag, before the table is rendered by the web browser application being run on specifically the client computer; linking the control to an algorithm; and activating the control so that the algorithm causes the column or the row to not be rendered when the table is displayed on the web page; wherein the display size of the table on the web page is reduced by not rendering the column or row in response to the control and the algorithm.