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jQuery Mobile Cookbook

By : Chetan Jain
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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

Native styling of form controls


The jQuery Mobile framework enhances the form and its controls by default. This recipe shows you the different ways you can set native styling for your form controls and also how to auto-initialize these controls.

Getting ready

Copy the full code of this recipe from the code/05/native-style sources folder. This code can be launched using the URL http://localhost:8080/05/native-style/main.html.

How to do it...

  1. In main.html, add the following script to the <head> section to natively style all buttons:

    $(document).bind('mobileinit', function() {
      $.mobile.page.prototype.options.keepNative = 'button';
    });
  2. Add a form to the page content to set native styles on the controls:

    <form action='#' method='post'>
      <p><label for='button1'>Button 1</label></p>
      <button name='button1'>Button: keepNative configuration</button>
      <p><label for='button2'>Button 2</label></p>
      <button name='button2' data...