Dynamically create jQuery Mobile page via JavaScript after clicking

Question

My jQuery Mobile app consists of a single index.html page and contains only one page with a link on startup:

Answer 1

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:

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('
  FOO BAR
  ');
  $('#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 :)