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!
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
emphasizedstrongbolditalicunderline<big>big</big>
<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