How to use jQuery Mobile for its touch event support only (no UI enhancements)?

Question

I’m working on a web app that has its own look and feel. I want to use jQuery Mobile for the touch events support only.

When I link jquery.mobile.min.js (without li

Answer 1

jQM is now decoupled:

• http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2011/08/03/jquery-mobile-beta-2-released/

Widgets: Now decoupled for flexible builds

We’ve wanted to decouple all our widgets from the page plugin for a long time now and we’re happy to announce that we finally landed this change. So what exactly does decoupled mean anyway? Well, the individual widgets and utilities have always been broken out into separate script files. However, the page plugin was responsible for handling the auto-initialization all of the official plugins found in the markup at page creation. This situation made it impossible to remove plugins you don’t need without causing errors, and generally set a bad precedent for future widget additions.

Now, pretty much all the UI widgets in the jQuery Mobile library are completely decoupled so they can simply be deleted if not needed for a particular project. This change allows you to dramatically reduce the size of the library by only including the specific set of widgets or features you need, in addition to the handful of required, core files. While we still plan to do more decoupling and cleanup, the following files are now decoupled and can safely be removed from the make file before you do a custom build:

• page header/content/footer
• collapsible
• controlgroup
• fieldcontain
• fixheaderfooter
• button
• checkboxradio
• select
• slider
• textinput
• links theming
• listview
• navbar
• grid

We will work on a dependency map because a few widgets rely on others to work. For example, the button markup plugin is called by many of the widgets above, so it can only be excluded but if you’re not using any of the widgets that depend on buttons.

We’re still working out our recommendations for mapping plugin dependencies and decoupling things even further. Ultimately, this will be surfaced in a download builder tool, so stay tuned!

You can head over to their GIT Repo and just download what you want:

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/tree/master/js

Answer 2

Visit the link below and only Select TOUCH, Features that will be add are listed below each checkbox, so only select what you need and will possibly use. CDN will always include all features and will slow down the as file size will be larger but not much. I have tested and is working :)

Working Example but (Full jQuery Mobile) with all features, simple use the one below or download the latest script of official website that is Custom: https://codepen.io/binaryfever/pen/RGjKGP

http://jquerymobile.com/download-builder/ Script below only supports the following features: Touch events including: touchstart, touchmove, touchend, tap, taphold, swipe, swipeleft, swiperight, scrollstart, scrollstop.

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