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 -----

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