Question

I want to manually create a button that leads to the previous page.

This is all ok:

newButton = $("<a href='" + $prevPage + "' title='back' data-rel='back'>" + someText + "</a>").buttonMarkup({
    shadow: true,
    corners: true,
    theme: "a",
    iconpos: "left",
    icon: 'arrow-l'
    });

My problem is setting the $prevPage variable. The data object supplied by JQM contains a prevPage object, so my question:

How do I extract the URL or Hashchange from this object?

Answer 1

Most use something like this –

<a href="" data-role="button" data-icon="back" onclick="history.go(-1);">Back</a>

You shouldn’t have to extract a hash using this method.