Question

I’m adding items to a jquery mobile listview problematically. I’m currently using jquery templates to give the new items the jqmobile design.

I would however like to let jQuery mobile style those items. Is it possible? If so, how do I tell jQuery to style the items?

Answer 1

You could refresh the jQM controls

• http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/lists/docs-lists.html

Updating lists
If you add items to a listview, you’ll need to call the refresh() method on it to update the styles and create
any nested lists that are added. For example:

$('#mylist').listview('refresh');

Note that the refresh() method only affects new nodes appended to a
list. This is done for performance reasons. Any list items already
enhanced will be ignored by the refresh process. This means that if
you change the contents or attributes on an already enhanced list
item, these won’t be reflected. If you want a list item to be updated,
replace it with fresh markup before calling refresh.

If you need to refresh the whole page look at these docs

• http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/pages/page-scripting.html

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.