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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

Adding a customized back button


When a new page is opened in your application, the jQuery Mobile framework provides an option to add a Back button to the header of the page to help you navigate back to the previous page. The Back button is not visible by default. This recipe shows you how to dynamically add and customize the Back button in your application using JavaScript.

Getting ready

Copy the full code of this recipe from the code/03/custom-back-button sources folder. This code can be launched using the URL http://localhost:8080/03/custom-back-button/main.html.

How to do it...

  1. Create main.html and add two anchor links in it. The first link opens a page with a Back button in its header and the second link opens a page without the Back button.

  2. Also add a submit button to the page as shown in the following code:

    <div id="main" data-role="page">
      <div data-role="header">
        <h1>Header of Main Page</h1>
      </div>
      <div data-role="content">
        <a href=...