September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
12h 59m
English
book
WAP Development with WML and WMLScript
by Ben Forta, Keith D. Lauver, Paul Fonte, Robert M. Juncker, Amy O'Leary, Ronan Mandel, Dylan Bromby
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Basic Card Output
As you know by now, the base element of WML is called a deck; the <wml> element embodies a deck. Each deck can contain a <head> or <template> element, or both; however, it must contain at least one <card>. A WML card is analogous to the body of an HTML page; a deck simply allows you to deliver more than one of these in each transaction.
▸ WML includes the <a> and <anchor> tags that not only produce output (the name of a hyperlink), they also receive input (the selection of the hyperlink). These elements were introduced alongside the card element earlier in Chapter 4, "Card Navigation."
Since WML targets very small displays with limited capabilities to display text or graphics, it's quite simple to create text layouts. In ...
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