Introduction to jQuery Mobile

Introduction to

ejlp12@gmail.com - Dec2012

jQuery Mobile

Touch-Optimized Web Framework for
Smartphones & Tablets

A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built
on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation.

If you know basic HTML, you can start building mobile sites right away.
By using hybrid mobile application tool such as Apache Cordova/Cordova then you can create
native installable mobile application.

jQuery Mobile features

 Pages & Dialogs, Navigation system
 Toolbars (Header & Footer bars)
 Content formating (collapsible content blocks, columns
layout)
 Button’s (Including a set of stock icons)
 Form Controls (Slider’s, Toggles, enhanced radio,
checkbox, etc)
 List View Control

http://jquerymobile.com

jQuery Mobile Demo

http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.2.0/

Supported Devices

Apple iOS Meego Windows Phone 7
Android Tizen Symbian
Blackberry Samsung Bada Palm webOS

http://jquerymobile.com/gbs/

Customize Theme
iOS Theme

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/themes/my-custom-theme.css" />

http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller/

Customize Download

 Download only the code that you’re using
– Minimal file size
– Function code that are not used is not included

http://jquerymobile.com/download-builder/

Getting started

 Components
– jQuery Core JS
– jQuery Mobile JS
– jQuery Mobile CSS

HTML5 DOCTYPE

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> Making widht fit to the screen
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
JQuery Mobile CSS & JS
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" />
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
...
</body>

data-role Attribute
<body>
<div data-role="page" id="main">
<div data-role="header">
<h1>My Header</h1>
</div>
<div data-role="content">
<p>Here is a <a href="#page2">link</a> to
another page.</p>
</div>
<div data-role="footer">
<h4>My Footer</h4>
</div>
</div>
</body>

An element that represent a jQuery Mobile widget is using HTML
attribute data-role

Immediate children of a "page" are divs with data-roles of "header",
"content", and "footer".

Page navigation
<body>
<div data-role="page" id="foo">
<div data-role="header"> <h1>First</h1> </div>
<div data-role="content"> <p>I'm first Page</p>
<p><a href="#bar">Link to second page</a></p>
</div>

<div data-role="page" id=“bar">
<div data-role="header“ data-add-back-btn="true">
<h1>Second</h1></div>
<div data-role="content"> <p>I'm second Page</p>
<p><a href="#foo">Link to first page</a></p>
</div>
</body>

 Page is basically a div identified by data-role="page" and id

 Link to page is using element a (anchor) with id name of page div as a value of href
attribute.

Back button in the header can be automatically added by adding data-add-back-btn="true“
 Another button in the header can be added using anchor tag inside header div e.g. <a
href="index.html" data-icon="check">Save</a>

Navigation bar: Navbar
<div data-role="navbar" data-iconpos="top">
<ul>
<li><a href="#" data-icon="home“
class="ui-btn-active">One</a></li>
<li><a href="#" data-icon="gear">Two</a></li>
<li><a href="#" data-icon="info">Three</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

 Navigation bar can be in header or footer
 Use ul, li and a tag
 Navigation item can be text only, icon only or both
 Standard icon without adding icon/image file can be use or use additional image/icon file.
 Default icon position is on top. Change the position of icon relative to the text using data-
iconpos attribute e.g. data-iconpos="bottom"

 To make a navigation item active use class="ui-btn-active"

Another Example: Listview
<body>
<div data-role="page" id="main">
<div data-role="header">
<h1>My Header</h1>
</div>
<div data-role="content">
<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true" >
<li><a href="#page2#">Page Two</a></li>
<li><a href="newpage.html">New Page</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h4>My Footer</h4>
</div>
</div>
<body>

Find out more on

http://jquerymobile.com

Application Gallery

http://www.jqmgallery.com

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