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# WML Formatting

## Decks and Cards

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!

## Paragraphs and Line Breaks

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

## Text Formatting

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

## Tables

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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