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WML pages are often called "decks". A deck contains a set of cards. A card element can contain text, markup, links, input-fields, tasks, images and more. Cards can be related to each other with links.
When a WML page is accessed from a mobile phone, all the cards in the page are downloaded from the WAP server. Navigation between the cards is done by the phone computer - inside the phone - without any extra access trips to the server:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> <wml> <card id="no1" title="Card 1"> <p>Hello World!</p> </card> <card id="no2" title="Card 2"> <p>Welcome to our WAP Tutorial!</p> </card> </wml> |
The result MIGHT look like this in your mobile phone display (note that only one card is displayed at a time):
------ Card 1 ------ Hello World! |
A WML card can be set up to display the paragraph and line break functions of WML:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> <wml> <card title="Paragraphs"> <p> This is a paragraph </p> <p> This is another<br/>with a line break </p> </card> </wml> |
The result MIGHT look like this in your mobile phone display:
------ Paragraphs ------ This is a paragraph This is another with a line break |
A WML card can be set up to display the text formatting functions of WML:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> <wml> <card title="Formatting"> <p> normal<br/> <em>emphasized</em><br/> <strong>strong</strong><br/> <b>bold</b><br/> <i>italic</i><br/> <u>underline</u><br/> <big>big</big><br/> <small>small</small> </p> </card> </wml> |
The result MIGHT look like this in your mobile phone display (don't take it for granted that all formatting tags will render as expected):
----- Formatting ----- normal emphasized strong bold italic underline big small |
A WML card can be set up to display the table functions of WML:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> <wml> <card title="Table"> <p> <table columns="3"> <tr> <td>Cell 1</td> <td>Cell 2</td> <td>Cell 3</td> </tr> </table> </p> </card> </wml> |
The result MIGHT look like this in your mobile phone display:
------ Table ------ Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3 |
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