Lesson 4: Adding text and other content to WML pages
Our first working WML file is the standard 'Hello World!' example.
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC
"-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
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<wml>
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<card id="card1" title="Welcome">
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<p align="center" mode="wrap">
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Hello World From Softsteel Solutions.
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</p>
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</card>
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</wml>
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The following pictures demonstrate how this script is displayed in the phone.com emulator and the Nokia blueprint WAP 1.2 phone emulator
phone.com
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Nokia
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The new element in the script above is the tag-pair <p> </p>. These tags hold the details of a paragraph, and it should be noted that any text that you want to show on the screen must be wrapped in paragraph tags.
Paragraph alignment is handled by giving a value to the 'align' attribute in the initial <p> tag. The following comprise the accepted values:
align="left" [default]
align="right"
align="center"
The paragraph element also has a mode attribute, which specifies how the paragraph text is to be displayed on the screen. There are two possible values for the attribute:
mode="wrap" [default]
mode="nowrap"
When mode is set to nowrap, the paragraph text is forced to display on one line. On some phones horizontal scrolling is possible; others use a blinking system moving along the information. The pictures below demonstrate the effect on our emulators of setting the mode to nowrap in our card:
phone.com
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Nokia
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