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An approach to dynamically adding and removing items from a web-application list module is provided. The approach includes configuring a web page without changing to another web page, and operating a configuration program in a web browser. A user may change various user elements in a web page withou

An approach to dynamically adding and removing items from a web-application list module is provided. The approach includes configuring a web page without changing to another web page, and operating a configuration program in a web browser. A user may change various user elements in a web page without accessing an edit page or refreshing the web page. The changes are incorporated while the user continues to interact with the web page. The changed information is stored and may be associated to the user's computer or the user using cookies.

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The invention claimed is: 1. A method of configuring a web page without changing to another web page, comprising: on a computing device, displaying an instance of the web page in a web browser window, the web page displaying a set of different categories of information; displaying a menu of edit op

The invention claimed is: 1. A method of configuring a web page without changing to another web page, comprising: on a computing device, displaying an instance of the web page in a web browser window, the web page displaying a set of different categories of information; displaying a menu of edit options over top of a portion of the instance of the web page displayed in the web browser window; receiving a user selection in the menu for editing the set of different categories of information being displayed in the instance of the web page; while continuing to display the instance of the web page, submitting an XMLHTTP request to retrieve information for satisfying the user selection in the menu; receiving the information from a server; while continuing to display the instance of the web page, using the information to implement one or more changes to the set of information displayed on the web page without refreshing the web page and without changing to another web page; preserving, using XMLHTTP, the one or more changes to the set of information for a future use in a set of cookies that is retrieved by at—a the computing device such that a retrieval of the web page from the server and the set of cookies provides the updated web page; and without navigating away from the web page, using DHTML to dynamically modify the set of content being displayed in the instance of the web page according to the one or more changes to the set of information. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein providing for the operation of the web browser to show the set of information comprises showing the set of information with one or more buttons to update the web page. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein providing for the operation of the web browser to show the set of information comprises showing the set of information with one or more symbols to remove one or more subsets of the set of information in the web page. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein implementing the one or more changes comprises at least one of adding more information to the set of information using XMLHTTP and DHTML, updating the set of information using XMLHTTP and DHTML, moving one or more subsets of the set of information using XMLHTTP and DHTML, or removing the one or more subsets of the set of information using XMLHTTP and DHTML. 5. A method for dynamically adding and removing elements from a web-application list module in a web server, comprising: providing a web page with a set of configurable elements to be viewed by a user; using an iFrame element to display content of the web page; receiving at least one of a user preference into an edit box with a button within an initial display of the web page to add a configurable element and the user preference at the initial display of the web page to remove the configurable element; communicating with another computing device using XMLHTTP to obtain one or more data in response to the user preference to add or remove the configurable element; at least one of adding the configurable element to the set of configurable elements in the iFrame element of the web page using DHTML and removing the configurable element from the set of configurable elements in the iFrame element of the web page using DHTML; storing the user preference in a set of cookies at a computing device such that a retrieval of the web page and the set of cookies implements the user preference in the web page to provide an updated web page; and allowing the user to continue to interact with the updated web page uninterrupted during a receipt of the user preference, a communication with the another computing device, an addition of the configurable element, and a removal of the configurable element. 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the set of configurable elements is selected from a first group including a list of user interface elements. 7. The method of claim 6, wherein the configurable elements are selected from a second group including an add data, an edit data, an update data, and a removable data. 8. The method of claim 5, wherein communicating with the another computing device comprises transmitting the user preference to the another computing device to perform an inline asynchronous update at the another computing device to persist a change and to obtain the one or more data. 9. The method of claim 5, wherein communicating with the another computing device comprises transmitting the user preference to the another computing device to perform an inline asynchronous update at the another computing device to persist a change and to provide the one or more data. 10. The method of claim 5, further comprising storing the set of cookies at the computing device of the user to uniquely associate the set of configurable elements with the computing device to maintain a display of the set of configurable elements. 11. The method of claim 10, further comprising storing the set of cookies at a server to uniquely associate the set of configurable elements with the user using a username and a password to maintain a display of the set of configurable elements.