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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

Scripting a dynamically added button


Buttons are standard HTML form elements that are enhanced by the button plugin in the jQuery Mobile framework to make them finger friendly and also to look good in a wide variety of mobile devices. You can add buttons to your app by using the <button> tag or the <input> tag. You can also style the anchor element as a button by adding the data-role="button" attribute to it. This recipe shows you how to dynamically add a button to a page using JavaScript and bind an action to this newly added button.

Getting ready

Copy the full code of this recipe from the code/04/dynamic-button sources folder. You can launch this code using the URL http://localhost:8080/04/dynamic-button/main.html.

How to do it...

In main.html, create the #main page and add a button to it. When you click on this button, use JavaScript and create a second button and also assign an action to it:

  1. Create the #main page in main.html and add the following code content to it:

    <div data...