jQM - Dynamic page creation example

by Dragan Gaić

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://jeromeetienne.github.com/jquery-mobile-960/css/jquery-mobile-fluid960.css">
<script src="http://timeago.yarp.com/jquery.timeago.js"></script>
<script src="http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/waypoints.min.js"></script>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>jQM Complex Demo</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; minimum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=no; target-densityDpi=device-dpi"/>
    <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="index">
        <div data-theme="a" data-role="header">
            <h3>
                First Page
            </h3>
        </div>

        <div data-role="content">
            <ul data-role="listview" data-theme="a">
                <li data-id="1"><a>Dynamic page 1</a></li>
                <li data-id="1"><a>Dynamic page 2</a></li>
                <li data-id="1"><a>Dynamic page 3</a></li>
            </ul>    
        </div>

        <div data-theme="a" data-role="footer" data-position="fixed">

        </div>
    </div>    
</body>
</html>

JavaScript

$(document).on('pagecreate', '#index', function(){       
    $(document).on('click', '[data-role="listview"] li', function(event) {
        if(event.handled !== true) // This will prevent event triggering more then once
        {   
            console.log('click');            
            event.handled = true; // click event is handled, dont bind it again
            
            var nextPageId = parseInt($('body [data-role="page"]').length)+1;
            $('[data-role="page"]').last().after('<div data-role="page" id="article'+nextPageId+'"><div data-role="header" data-theme="b" data-position="fixed" data-id="footer"><h1>Articles</h1><a href="#" data-rel="back" data-role="button" data-theme="b" class="ui-btn-left">Back</a></div><div data-role="content"><p>Article '+nextPageId+'</p></div><div data-role="footer" data-theme="b" data-position="fixed" data-id="footer"><h1>Footer</h1></div></article>');
            //console.log($('body').html());
            //$('#article'+nextPageId).trigger('pagecreate');
            $.mobile.changePage('#article'+nextPageId, {transition: "slide", reverse: false}, true, true); 
        }            
    });   
});