Patent ID: 8473841

Claim:
A method for integrating a visual element bar with a web page in a web browser, the method comprising: retrieving, through a computing device, a web page within a web browser, the web page including a script tag corresponding to a script; rendering the web page in the web browser; identifying the script tag within the web page and loading the script for a visual element bar; creating, through the script, a hidden div tag for the visual element bar; registering, through the script, a scroll handler; detecting, through the scroll handler, a scroll offset of the web page; rendering the visual element bar with the web page in the web browser based upon a determination that the scroll offset exceeds a threshold; and hiding the visual element bar when the scroll offset does not exceed the threshold, wherein the rendering the visual element bar comprises: rendering the visual element bar as an overlay at a predefined location within a web page viewing area of the web browser.