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jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials-Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Raymond Camden, Andy Matthews
Book Image

jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials-Third Edition - Third Edition

By: Raymond Camden, Andy Matthews

Overview of this book

jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based touch-optimized web framework. jQuery Mobile can be used to build responsive cross-platform websites and apps for a wide range of smartphones, tablets, and desktop devices. The jQuery Mobile framework can be integrated with other mobile app frameworks such as PhoneGap, IBM Worklight, and more. Introduction to jQuery Mobile explains how to add the framework to your HTML pages to create rich, mobile-optimized web pages with minimal effort. You’ll learn how to use jQuery Mobile’s automatic enhancements and configure the framework for customized, powerful mobile-friendly websites. We then dig into forms, events, and styling. You'll see how jQuery Mobile automatically enhances content, and will find out how to use the JavaScript API to build complex sites. We’ll introduce you to how jQuery Mobile can be themed as well looking into how JavaScript can be used for deep sets of customizations. The examples are ready to run and can be used to help kick-start your own site. Along the way, you will leverage all the concepts you learn to build three sample mobile applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

jQuery Mobile widget and form utilities


We've mentioned numerous times how jQuery Mobile automatically updates various items and supports things, such as lists and collapsible content. One of the things you may run into, however, is trying to get jQuery Mobile to work with the content loaded after the page is rendered. So, for example, imagine a listview that has data added to it via some JavaScript code. The code in Listing 9-8 demonstrates a simple example of this. It has a listview with a few items in it, and it also has a form by which a person could add new entries:

Listing 9-8: test5.html
<div data-role="page" id="third">

   <div data-role="header">
         <h1>List Updates</h1>
   </div>
   
   <div role="main" class="ui-content">

         <ul id="theList" data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
                <li>Initial</li>
                <li>Item</li>
         </ul>
         
         <form>
   ...