Sun Java System Portal Server Mobile Access 7.1 Developer's Reference

AmlText

Description

An AmlText is the element for placing text on a display. The text exhibited is the value of the text attribute. The text can be adjusted as to font size (textsize attribute), and horizontal alignment (halign attribute). The text can be made italic, bold, or underline.

Element Body

((AmlContainer*, AmlStyle?)

Parent

AmlPage, AmlChoice, AmlOption, AmlForm, AmlTableCol, AmlTableHead, AmlInput, AmlLink, AmlControlMenu, AmlCheckBox, AmlGroup, AmlListItem, AmlOrderedList, AmlList, AmlSelectList

Restrictions

None

AML Attributes

Attribute  

Description  

Possible values  

Default  

Req’d?  

text 

Set text displayed 

CDATA 

No Default 

No 

textsize 

Set size of text 

(big|normal|small) 

normal 

No 

halign 

Set horizontal alignment 

(left|right|center) 

center 

No 

valign 

Set vertical alignment 

(top|middle|bottom) 

normal 

No 

font 

Set font 

CDATA 

No Default 

No 

italics 

Set italics emphasis 

(true|false) 

false 

No 

bold 

Set bold emphasis 

(true|false) 

false 

No 

underline 

Set underline emphasis 

(true|false) 

false 

No 

color 

Set color 

CDATA 

No Default 

No 

blink 

Set the text to blink 

(true|false) 

false 

No 

marquee 

Set the title to marquee 

(true|false) 

false 

No 

cache 

Set caching 

(true|false) 

false 

No 

persist 

Set the persist flag 

(true|false) 

false 

No 

encode 

Set the encode flag 

(true|false) 

false 

No 

Markup Language Examples

Sample AML Input:

<AmlDocument>
	<AmlPage title="Hello World Page">
		<AmlText text="Hello World!"/>
	</AmlPage>
</AmlDocument>

Sample WML Output:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="max-age=0"/>
	</head>
	<card id="agp0">
		<p align="center">Hello World Page</p> <p>Hello World!</p>
	</card>
</wml>

Sample cHTML Output:

<html>
	<head>
		<title></title>
		<meta name="PalmComputingPlatform" content="true"></meta>
		<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"></meta>
		<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"></meta>
	</head>
	<body>
		<div align="center">
		<a name="agp0">Hello World Page</a>
		</div>
		Hello World!
	</body>
</html>