Atlassian Corporation Pty Ltd.

Craig Thomas Petchell

Matt Ryall

Bill Arconati

Wesley Atwood Walser

A method for automatically generating column layouts comprises obtaining, by a page layout computer, source code of an electronic document comprising content; in response to a request to activate a page layout of the electronic document and before receiving a first input indicating a modification to a layout of the electronic document, automatically inserting, by the page layout computer, a coded hierarchy into the source code of the electronic document specifying at least one column within which the content is automatically inserted into a particular column of the at least one column; receiving, by the page layout computer, the first input indicating the modification to the layout of the electronic document; based on the first input and by the page layout computer, modifying the coded hierarchy to represent the modification to the layout.

Automatically generating column layouts in electronic documents

A method for automatically generating column layouts comprises obtaining, by a page layout computer, source code of an electronic document comprising content, in response to a request to activate a page layout of the electronic document and before receiving a first input indicating a modification to a layout of the electronic document, automatically inserting, by the page layout computer, a coded hierarchy into the source code of the electronic document specifying a single section and a single column including the content, receiving, by the page layout computer, the first input indicating the modification to the layout of the electronic document, based on the first input and by the page layout computer, modifying the source code, causing, by the page layout computer, generating an updated editing view of the electronic document that graphically represents the modification to the layout.

In one aspect, a page layout editor is configured to automatically modify page layouts of Web pages with sections and columns. An online WYSIWYG HTML editor enables users to create page layouts with arbitrary numbers of sections and columns without specialized knowledge of HTML coding techniques. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented data processing method comprises obtaining source code of an electronic document; automatically modifying the source code by adding a coded hierarchy configured to specify definitions of one or more sections and one or more columns, and initially specifying a single section and a single column in the coded hierarchy; receiving first input indicating selection of a particular page layout control among a plurality of page layout controls in a graphical user interface, the input specifying any of: adding a section; deleting a section; changing to a first number of columns; in response to the first input, automatically modifying the source code by changing the coded hierarchy to specify definitions of a different number of sections or the first number of columns as indicated by the input; causing generating an updated editing view of the electronic document that graphically represents the different number of sections or the first number of columns; wherein the method is performed using one or more computing devices.

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Craig Thomas Petchell