Question

I made a website in jQuery Mobile. I loaded some HTML content via the jQuery $.ajax() function.

The code loaded contains such features as buttons and expand-able sections.

However, none of the loaded elements exhibit mobile features. The jQuery Mobile CSS is not being applied to them.

Does this have to do with how jQuery Mobile is already using Ajax to navigate around pages? The HTML content that was not loaded dynamically does retain the jQuery Mobile styles.

Answer 1

You need to refresh jQM controls for the new elements:

• http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0.1/docs/pages/page-scripting.html

Enhancing new markup
The page plugin dispatches a pagecreate event, which most widgets use to auto-initialize themselves. As long
as a widget plugin script is referenced, it will automatically enhance
any instances of the widgets it finds on the page.

However, if you generate new markup client-side or load in content via
Ajax and inject it into a page, you can trigger the create event to
handle the auto-initialization for all the plugins contained within
the new markup. This can be triggered on any element (even the page
div itself), saving you the task of manually initializing each plugin
(listview button, select, etc.).

For example, if a block of HTML markup (say a login form) was loaded
in through Ajax, trigger the create event to automatically transform
all the widgets it contains (inputs and buttons in this case) into the
enhanced versions. The code for this scenario would be:

$( ...new markup that contains widgets... ).appendTo( ".ui-page" ).trigger( "create" );

Create vs. refresh: An important distinction
Note that there is an important difference between the create event and refresh method
that some widgets have. The create event is suited for enhancing raw
markup that contains one or more widgets. The refresh method should be
used on existing (already enhanced) widgets that have been manipulated
programmatically and need the UI be updated to match.

For example, if you had a page where you dynamically appended a new
unordered list with data-role=listview attribute after page creation,
triggering create on a parent element of that list would transform it
into a listview styled widget. If more list items were then
programmatically added, calling the listview’s refresh method would
update just those new list items to the enhanced state and leave the
existing list items untouched.