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jQuery Mobile Cookbook

By : Chetan Jain
Book Image

jQuery Mobile Cookbook

By: Chetan Jain

Overview of this book

jQuery Mobile is an award winning, HTML5/CSS3 based open source cross-platform UI framework. It offers a very cool and highly customizable UX. It is built on the popular jQuery library and uses declarative coding making it easy to use and learn. It is the market leader today considering the numerous browsers and platforms that it supports."jQuery Mobile Cookbook" presents over a hundred recipes written in a simple and easy manner. You can quickly learn and start writing code immediately. Advanced topics such as using scripts to manipulate, customize, and extend the framework are also covered. These tips address your common everyday problems. The book is very handy for both beginner and experienced jQuery Mobile developers.You start by developing simple apps using various controls and learn to customize them. Later you explore using advanced aspects like configurations, events, and methods.Develop single and multi-page applications. Use caching to boost performance. Use custom transitions, icon sprites, styles, and themes. Learn advanced features like configurations, events, and methods. Explore future trends by using HTML5 new features and semantics with jQuery Mobile."jQuery Mobile Cookbook" is an easy read and is packed with practical tips and screenshots.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery Mobile Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


A Page is the basic jQuery Mobile object written within a <div data-role="page"> container that gets displayed on the screen. It can contain the header, the page content, and the footer. You can embed various HTML5 controls and widgets within a page. The jQuery Mobile framework automatically enhances and displays all these controls, making them tap-friendly (finger-friendly). Your application can have a series of individual HTML files each representing a single page, or it can have one single HTML file containing multiple page div containers within it. You can provide links to open other pages within a page, and when the user clicks on a link, the new page opens using Ajax with CSS3 animation. The current page is then hidden from view.

A Dialog is a page having the data-role="dialog" attribute. You can also load a page as a dialog by adding the data-rel="dialog" attribute to the page link. The dialog is styled differently from a page, and it appears in the middle of the...