Dynamically create jQuery Mobile page via JavaScript after clicking Dynamically create jQuery Mobile page via JavaScript after clicking javascript javascript

Dynamically create jQuery Mobile page via JavaScript after clicking


I had some time to mess around with this and I've found a solution that works (tested).

SOME NOTES:

  1. the javascript encapsulated in $(document).ready(); is for dynamically creating a page if the user navigates to your index.html file with a hash mark already appended (i.e. index.html#some_hash_mark).
  2. The function, create_page(page_id) is for creating a page from a link (or programatically if you like).
  3. Note that the jquery core script and the jquery mobile css are loaded before the $(document).ready() statement but that the jquery mobile script is loaded after.
  4. See that the body tag has been given an id that is refrenced when appending pages to it.

Document Sample

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0a4.1/jquery.mobile-1.0a4.1.min.css"/><script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js"></script><script>$(document).ready(function() {    //check if hash exists and that it is not for the home screen    if (window.location.hash != '' && window.location.hash != '#page_0') {        //set whatever content you want to put into the new page        var content_string = 'Some ' + window.location.hash + ' text...<br><br><a href="#page_0">go to home screen</a>';        //append the new page onto the end of the body        $('#page_body').append('<div data-role="page" id="' + window.location.hash.replace('#','') + '"><div data-role="content">' + content_string + '</div></div>');        //add a link on the home screen to navaigate to the new page (just so nav isn't broken if user goes from new page to home screen)        $('#page_0 div[data-role="content"]').append('<br><br><a href="#' + window.location.hash.replace('#','') + '">go to ' + window.location.hash.replace('#','') + ' page</a>');    }});function create_page(page_id) {    //set whatever content you want to put into the new page    var string = 'FOO BAR page...<br><br><a href="#page_0">return to home screen</a>';    //append the new page onto the end of the body    $('#page_body').append('<div data-role="page" id="' + page_id + '"><div data-role="content">' + string + '</div></div>');    //initialize the new page     $.mobile.initializePage();    //navigate to the new page    $.mobile.changePage("#" + page_id, "pop", false, true);    //add a link on the home screen to navaigate to the new page (just so nav isn't broken if user goes from new page to home screen)    $('#page_0 div[data-role="content"]').append('<br><br><a href="#' + page_id + '">go to ' + page_id + ' page</a>');    //refresh the home screen so new link is given proper css    $('#page_0 div[data-role="content"]').page();}</script><title>Fixed Headers Example</title><script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0a4.1/jquery.mobile-1.0a4.1.min.js"></script></head><body id="page_body"><div data-role="page" id="page_0"><div data-role="content">Some #page_0 text...<br><br><a href="javascript: create_page('foo_bar_page');">create new page</a></div></div></body></html>


To me Jasper solution doesn't work but i've found this solution that look cleaner and work fine


Here is my method for dynamically adding content to my Jquery Mobile websites:

  1. First I create a "wrapper" data-role=page div like so:

    <div data-role="page" id="my_page_id"><div data-role="content">    <script>    $('#my_page_id').live('pageshow', function() {        my_data_loading_function('my_page_id');    });    </script><div id="my_page_id-content"></div></div><!--/content--></div><!--/page-->
  2. Next I load data from an external source into a div tag located in my "wrapper" page:

    function my_data_loading_function(page) {    if ($('#' + page + '-content').is(':empty')) {        $.mobile.pageLoading();        $('#' + page + '-content').load("my_external_script.php", function() {            $.mobile.pageLoading(true);            $('#' + page + '-content ul').listview();            $('#' + page + '-content ul').page();        });    }}

Some Notes:

  • $.mobile.pageLoading(); and $.mobile.pageLoading(true); show and hide (respectively) the Jquery Mobile loading spinner.

  • if ($('#' + page + '-content').is(':empty')) { allows the user to navaigate away from the dynamically created page and then come back and not have to re-load the data until a full page refresh occurs.

  • My dynamically created page included mostly a list so listview() makes the jquery mobile framework refresh the list selected to add the proper css, page() does the same to other page elements; however you may only need to use one or the other depending on your content (or none at all if its just plain text).

  • I realize this isn't creating a whole page dynamically because the "wrapper" page is already hard-coded but if you want to add a whole new page you can probably use something like: (untested)

    $(document).append('<div data-role="page" id="my_page_id"><div data-role="content">FOO BAR</div></div>');$('#my_page_id').page();

If you really want to make it all dynamically created you can check for window.location.hash and create your data-role=page div with the id set as the window.location.hash.

Also I am using Jquery 1.6 and Jquery Mobile 1.0a4.1

I hope something in there can help someone out there :)