Question

I’m creating a web-database driven offline web-app targeted at iOS devices. I’m trying to use jQuery Mobile, but I have a problem in creating the various forms.

The form options are taken from a database query, so they are inserted into the page after it has loaded, so the “jQuery-Mobilification” doesn’t happen. Taking a quick look through the source, there doesn’t seem to be any obvious way to call into this at this stage (of course it’s an alpha release, and I think this would be a reasonably common request, so I’m hopeful it will come). Is there some kind of workaround I can put in to do this? I’m particularly interested in radio buttons, check boxes and select lists.

Answer 1

This is messing around in undocumented internals, but the following is working for me:

$("#some-div").load("/html/fragment/", 
                    function() { 
                      $(this).find("input").customTextInput();  
                    });

There are equivalent methods for buttons, checkboxes etc.

Have a look at the _enchanceControls [sic] method in http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0a1/jquery.mobile-1.0a1.js.

Update for 1.0Alpha2: As can be expected when playing around with the internals of a library, this no longer works in the latest version. Changing customTextInput() to textinput() fixes it a bit, but the theme isn’t fully applied for some reason. We were warned…