How to modify jQuery mobile history Back Button behavior

Question

I\'ll start this off with I have researched a bit, but no solution that solves what seems like it should be a simple JQM modification.

I have a wine review webapp th

Answer 1

I wrestled with this recently as well. After thinking about it, I realized I could rewrite my JQM application to use Pop Up "windows" for those pages that I didn't want in my history. This ended up being an easier and cleaner fix than mucking around with browser history.

Now users can intuitively use the browser back button, and I don't have to code application back buttons.

The only thing you have to ensure is that the popups don't themselves make it into the browser history, so make sure to set the "history" option to false like so:

$('#some_popup').popup( { history: false } );