Patent ID: 7051276

Claim:
A method of displaying content documents in accordance with a custom layout on a computer having a display screen, an operating system operating under the control of a textual mark-up engine, and a textual mark-up template document, the method comprising: parsing in a first tag contained in the textual mark-up template document; determining from data defined by the first tag, a first textual mark-up content document, a first defined subset of the display screen area, and an identifier of a second tag; displaying content from the first textual mark-up content document in the first defined subset of the display screen area, and recording an association of the first tag with the second tag; parsing in a third tag contained in the textual mark-up template document; determining from data defined by the third tag, a second textual mark-up content document, a second defined subset of the display screen area, and an identifier of a fourth tag; displaying content from the second textual mark-up content document in the second defined subset of the display screen area, and recording an association of the third tag with the fourth tag; parsing in the second tag contained in the textual mark-up template document; determining from a recorded association, that the second tag is associated with the first tag, and displaying overflow from the first textual mark-up content document in a display screen area defined by the second tag; parsing in the fourth tag contained in the textual mark-up template document; and determining from a recorded association, that the fourth tag is associated with the third tag, and displaying overflow from the second textual mark-up content document, in a display screen area defined by the fourth tag.