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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1999
Edward E. Kelley, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Norman J. Dauerer, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for correctly positioning the text of a hypertext markup language (html) file on a display screen linked to a computer such that there are no partial lines of text displayed and without the re-display of text that was displayed on a previous screen. By correctly positioning the text on the display screen, even when the user scrolls the text backwards and forwards, only entire lines of text are displayed which makes reading the text on the screen much more user friendly. By locating the html tags within the html source file, the number of lines of text in the file are determined and subsequently assigned to a screen row within the display screen such that only entire lines of text are displayable.