Style Guide

Due to the limitations on Mxit regarding display, it is recommended to use a very limited set of html elements and styles.

The following are recommendations regarding html styles:

• Avoid <p>, <div>, <ul> and <ol> tags, as their rendering is unpredictable or they are ignored.
• Use <br /> tags for line breaks. These correspond exactly on the phone, so will have predictable results.
• Use <b> and <i> tags for bold and italics (rather than <strong> and <em> or CSS properties)
• When setting either the background or foreground color in CSS (background-color and color respectively), be sure to also set the other. If you don't the page might render badly on certain skins.
• Avoid using characters like < (>) inside links

The following CSS properties can reliably be used in table cells (using the mxit_table_row helper):

• background-color
• color
• padding