Font
Style in XHTML MP
You
can use tags to change the font style of the text in XHTML MP.
However, some WAP browsers only support a subset of these tags, even
though these tags are defined by the XHTML MP specification. This is
because the WAP browser can only make use of the fonts available on
the mobile device. For example, if the italic font is not available,
the italic style is not supported. Unsupported XHTML MP tags will be
ignored by WAP browsers and will not cause any errors.
(fontStyleEg1.xhtml)
<?xml
version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Font
Style</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<b>Bold</b><br/>
<i>Italic</i><br/>
<b><i>Bold
italic</i></b><br/>
<small>Small</small><br/>
<big>Big</big><br/>
<em>Emphasis</em><br/>
<strong>Strong</strong>
</p>
</body>
</html>
The
<b> and <i> tags means bold and italic respectively. The
<small> tag reduces the text size. The <big> tag
increases the text size. The <em> and <strong> styles are
similar. The WAP browser will display text with emphasis (<em>)
or strong (<strong>) style in some way that makes it more
noticeable. The effect depends on the actual wireless device.
The
following screenshots show the output of the above XHTML MP markup
code in some WAP browsers. The result will be somewhat different on
other mobile phone models.
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Sony
Ericsson T610
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Nokia
Mobile Browser 4.0
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You
can have more precise control over font formats with WAP CSS. For
example, you can control the font family to be used or set a specific
font size (e.g. 12pt) to some text.
The
<u> tag of HTML does not exist in XHTML MP. So, if you want to
underline some text, WAP CSS has to be used.
Font
and text properties of WAP CSS are discussed in the "WCSS
Font and Text Properties" section of our WAP
CSS tutorial.
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