A method is provided for managing retrieval of content for display in a table by a browser. When large tables of data are displayed by browsers, not all the data can be viewed at once. To improve performance, only the data in the visible portion of table may be downloaded when the user first accesses the page. The table may be divided into tiles such that each tile comprises multiple table cells, each tile to be treated as a separate component to be independent loaded and rendered. When a user accesses the page, the relevant data for the initially displayed tile(s) is downloaded from the server, stored in the browser's document object model (DOM), and rendered for display. As the user scrolls, additional data not yet stored in the DOM is downloaded, cached in the DOM and rendered.