13. 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>
 
 Bold 
 Italic 
 Bold italic 
 Small 
 <big>Big</big> 
 Emphasis 
 Strong
 
 </body>
</html>

The and tags means bold and italic respectively. The tag reduces the text size. The <big> tag increases the text size. The and styles are similar. The WAP browser will display text with emphasis () or 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.

Sony Ericsson T610	Nokia Mobile Browser 4.0

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 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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