jQM - Prevent event propagation

by Dragan Gaić

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>jQM Demo 1</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/>
    <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/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>    
</head>
<body>

<div data-role="page" id="page1">

    <div data-role="header" data-position="fixed" data-fullscreen="true">
        <h1>Styling test</h1>
    </div>

    <div data-role="content">
        <div class="someDiv">
Click this DIV
         </div>      
    </div>

    <div data-role="footer">
    
    </div>
</div>
<script>

</script>
</body>
</html>

CSS

.someDiv {
    width: 300px;
    height: 100px;
    background-color: #aabbcc;
    color: #112233;
    margin-top: 200px;
}

JavaScript

$('#page1').live('pagebeforeshow',function(e,data){
    $('.someDiv').live('click', function (e) {   
        alert('Event is not going to propagate to content div, thus not hiding a header');             
        event.stopPropagation();   
        event.stopImmediatePropagation();
    });
});