Backbone & Jquery Mobile rendering styles not working - Written in CoffeeScript - jquery-mobile

I'm using backbone jquery mobile and coffee script to develop a simple twitter application. My problem is the jquery mobile styles are failing to render. My View is
class HomeView extends Backbone.View
constructor: ->
super
initialize: ->
#Twitter= new TwitterCollection
template: _.template($('#home').html())
render: ->
#loadResults()
loadResults: ->
#Twitter.fetch({
success: (data) =>
$(#.el).html(#template({data: data.models, _:_}))
error: ->
alert('Error!')
})
This works fine in terms of pulling information from Twitter, however when
$(#.el).html(#template({data: data.models, _:_}))
is within the fetch function, jquerys styles do not render. Can anyone show me how to refresh the styles? Help would be much appreciated!
For reference, the html template is:
<script type="text/template" id="home">
<div data-role="header" data-position="fixed">
<h1>TWITTER DATA</h1>
</div>
<div data-role="content">
<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
<% _.each(data, function (row) { %>
<li><%= row.get('text') %></li>
<% }); %>
</ul>
</ul>
</div>

Ok, I fixed it by adding ".listview('refresh').trigger('create');" to the end of
$(#.el).html(#template({data: data.models, _:_}))

When the fix is applied afterwards (after the view page has been rendered and displayed by $.mobile.changePage()) the user gets an unpleasant side-effect: the view flickers due to the change of style applied by jquery mobile.
My solution to the problem was to trigger custom event from the view once the dynamic rendering is complete and bind the $.mobile.changePage() to that event. This causes the output to be "buffered" until complete and then styled altogether.
Here's an example:
In the initialize function of my view I have code waiting for an event to be fired by the model/collection when fetched and a function to render the dynamic part of the html:
window.MyView = Backbone.View.extend({
// some other code here
initialize: function() {
this.listenTo(this.collection, "fetchCompleted:CollectionName", this.renderRows);
},
renderRows: function (eventName) {
$(this.el).find('div[class="content-primary"]').html(this.template_ul({data: this.collection}));
this.trigger( 'view:ready' );
},
//...
... then in the router I have the following code for the changePage():
myViewObject.on( 'view:ready', function() {
$.mobile.changePage($(next.el), {changeHash:false, transition: transition});
});

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With an MVC project containing _layout.cshtml with bundles loaded, clicking around loads the Layout and bundles every time a view is loaded. Is there any build-in mechanism that I can use to load that stuff only initially, so that RenderBody() only loads the content I don't have yet (not reloading Layout)? Is this where partials come in?
If partials are the right way to handle it, does this mean I need to have two versions of each controller method (One with Layout, one without)? Any tips here would be great.
As far as I know there's no built-in mechanism to load the layout page only at once. You can do it using client-side approach if you want that layout will be loaded only at once so that it would be lighter for the server. Here's the step. Create MVC 4 application.
In your _Layout.cshtml add a div that will hold the html page you want to load. In my case "pageholder"
<div id="body">
<div id="pageholder">
#RenderSection("featured", required: false)
<section class="content-wrapper main-content clear-fix">
#RenderBody()
</section>
</div>
</div>
Add this script in your _Layout.cshtml
#Scripts.Render("~/Scripts/common.js")
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.pagelink').click(function() {
var settings = {
'url': $(this).attr('url'),
'type': 'GET',
'dataType':'html'
};
get_html(settings);
});
});
</script>
Modify your menu link
<nav>
<ul id="menu">
<li>#Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")</li>
<li>About</li>
<li> Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
Add js file and name it common.js and put this content
function get_html(settings) {
settings.success = function(data) {
$('#pageholder').empty().html(data);
};
settings.error = function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
alert(xhr.statusText);
};
$.ajax(settings);
}
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How do I open a tab from with jQuery UI Tabs from an link outside of the div?

This may be a little difficult to explain, but I'll try my best. I have a product page with two tabs, full description and video. These are done using jQuery UI Tabs.
Above this section of the page I have a product image with thumbnails...but I want one of the thumbnails to be a link to see the video (which of course is contained in the video tab).
If I load the page as site.com/product#video it does load up the correct tab...but when the tab is not active, and I use a link outside of the #tab div, (ex: Video), it doesn't do anything.
How can I get a link to open the tab if it's not contained in the #tab div?
CODE
This code is outside of the tabs, and needs to open the #video tab
Open Video Tab
Tabs Code
<div id="tabs" class="ui-tabs ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all">
<ul class="product-tabs ui-tabs-nav ui-helper-reset ui-helper-clearfix ui-widget-header ui-corner-all">
<li class="ui-state-default ui-corner-top ui-tabs-selected ui-state-active ui-state-hover">Full Description</li>
<li class="ui-state-default ui-corner-top">Video</li>
</ul>
<div class="product-collateral">
<div class="box-collateral box-description">
<div id="description" class="ui-tabs-panel ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom">
Content
</div>
<div id="video" class="ui-tabs-panel ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom ui-tabs-hide">
<h2 class="video">Video Content</h2>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
What worked for me was this:
Html
Open Description Tab
Open Video Tab
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li>
Full description
</li>
<li>
Video content
</li>
</ul>
<div class="product-collateral">
<div class="box-collateral box-description">
<div id="description">
Content
</div>
<div id="video">
<h2 class="video">Video Content</h2>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Javascript
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#tabs').tabs();
$('.open-tab').click(function (event) {
var tab = $(this).attr('href');
$('#tabs').tabs('select', tab);
});
});
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From here we can see that when selecting a particular tab, we can use either a zero-based index or the href fragment which points to the tab we wish to display.
This is why the href attributes of the a elements match up with the Ids of the div elements - when one is clicked its href fragment is then used to set the selected tab.
Update for jQuery UI 1.11
As jQuery UI has evolved, so to has the API for setting the active tab. As of jQuery UI 1.11, the following code will select the active tab:
//Selects by the zero-based index
$('#tabs').tabs("option", "active", index);
Now because we now have to provide a zero-based index, the code I initially provided will no longer work.
What we need now is an index that can actually be used. One approach is:
$('.open-tab').click(function (event) {
var index = $("selector-of-clicked-tab").index();
$('#tabs').tabs("option", "active", index);
});
Another is to use HTML5 data- attributes:
Open Description Tab
Open Video Tab
So you can do this when handling the click of these links:
$('.open-tab').click(function (event) {
$('#tabs').tabs("option", "active", $(this).data("tab-index"));
});
use jQuery:
$( "#tabs" ).tabs({ active: tabNumber });
Remember, that the indexation starts from 0
Using jquery, bind a click event to your link that opens the tab you want.
$('#tabopenlink').click(function() {
$('#tabs').tabs({active: tabidx});
});
I use mini plug-in.
(function($) {
$.fn.tabremote = function(options) {
var settings = $.extend({
panel: "#tabs",
to: "data-to",
}, options );
$this=$(this);
$panel=$(settings.panel);
$this.click(function(){
if($(this).attr("href"))
{var tos=$(this).attr("href");}
else
{var tos=$(this).attr(settings.to);}
to=tos.match(/\d/g);
$panel.tabs({active: to-1});
return false;
});
return this;
}
})(jQuery);
Opens the tab using href or any element.
id panel must contain the number of the panel. Example (1-tabs, tabs-2, ...)
Plugin subtracts 1 and open the panel. Tabs (active, (number of id -1))
Use
$("button.href").tabremote({panel:"#tabs",to:"data-href"});
panel:"#tabs" // container panel
to:"data-href" // attribute name with value
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$("#tabs").find("ul li[aria-controls='"+link+"'] a").trigger("click");
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Just add data-toggle="tab" and put the link wherever you want in the page:
Open Video Tab
For jQuery UI 1.11
HTML:
<div id="tabs">...</div>
...
Open Video Tab
JS:
$('.open-tab').click(function () {
$("#tabs").tabs('option','active',$('#tabs a.ui-tabs-anchor[href="'+$(this).attr('href')+'"]').index('#tabs a.ui-tabs-anchor'));
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I am developing an app having UI which is used for mapping fields (Source => Destination).
These fields would appear in UL -> LI -> DIV
The lists are going to be created dynamically by PHP.
Source fields are draggable with revert:true, where as Destination fields (droppable) would accept source field. I know the accept : "#divsource"
I am able to make many div's draggable, but my problem is how to define many LI->Div as droppable.
At then end the drop event would call ajax and that I can handle as well.
I am new to jQuery and whatever I have learned till now is with this task is all I know. But, my quick learning ability is not a problem.
Please help with some example.
thanks
Wikki
Below code is something I have been playing with. I know it's bit far off from what eventually it should look like:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.srcfield').draggable({
revert: true,
helper: "clone"
});
$('#destinationfeilds').droppable({
accept : ".srcfield",
over: function(){
$(this).removeClass('out').addClass('over');
},
out: function(){
$(this).removeClass('over').addClass('out');
},
drop: function(ev, ui){
//var answer = confirm('Delete this item?');
var theTitle = $(ui.draggable).attr("title");
$(this).html("<u>"+theTitle+"</u><br/> is mapped!");
//$(this).removeClass('over').addClass('out');
//alert(theTitle);
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="destinationfeilds" class="out">
<span>Destination</span>
</div>
<div id="destinationfeilds" class="out">
<span>Destination</span>
</div>
<div id="sourcefields">
<div class="srcfield" title="First Name"><span>First Name</span></div>
<div class="srcfield" title="Last Name"><span>Last Name</span></div>
<div class="srcfield" title="Age"><span>Age</span></div>
</div>
</body>

jQuery Mobile - How to mobile-ize a checkbox rendered via jQuery Templates

On a jQuery Mobile site I have elements of a <ul> being populated by jQuery Templates, filling out <li> items so something like this:
<ul>
</ul>
<button>Fill</button>
<script type="text/x-jquery-tmpl" id="tmpl-items">
<li><input type="checkbox" name="guys" /> ${FirstName} ${LastName}</li>
</script>
<script type="text/javascipt">
$('this-page-id').live('pageinit', function() {
$('button').click(function() {
$('#tmpl-items').tmpl(MyApp.Model)
.appendTo('ul')
});
})
</script>
Everything works, except the checkbox renders as a normal checkbox, not a cool jquery-mobilized checkbox. I know that the trick is to call "refresh" on the widget but I have no idea what widget I should be using - there is no data-role here. Does anybody know?
Can you triggering a create on the ul,like this $('ul').trigger('create');

How to make IDs of components (Div, a, h1, etc) of a webpage Dynamic (variable?) using MVC2?

I am trying to do the following:
The object I give to the Viewpage has a list, I do a foreach in the HTML and I create a number of components. Now, I want the IDs of those components to somehow be linked to the object from the List.
(The reason I am trying to do this is because I want to show a button, when they press that button the shown content will change and they should see something else, I will use javascript to achieve this)
Therefor I am trying to make the id of those components dynamic, by for example stating
id="button <%= item.id%>" however this does not seem to work. I have searched alot on google but I haven't found a solution yet which is why I turn to you guys.
I'll link my code as well, I deleted some of the parts that were unnecessary (but added the javascript):
<script type="text/javascript">
function AlterPanel(thePanel) {
var panel = document.getElementById("region"+thePanel);
panel.style.display = 'block';
var button = document.getElementById("button"+thePanel);
button.style.display = 'none';}
</script>
<%foreach (TeamDTO team in Model.List.Teams)
{ %>
<a id="button<%= team.Number %>" onclick="AlterPanel(<% team.Number%>)">
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Please select one:
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</div>
<% } %>
I eagerly await a reply and thank you in advance.
I guess your Queastion is:
-you have some "button DropDownList" pair, button is visiable, DropDownList is invisible, now if user click the button then DropDownList will showup.
OK, now your View maybe :
<%foreach (TeamDTO team in Model.List.Teams)
{ %>
<a onclick="AlterPanel(<% team.Number%>)">
Add member</a>
<div id="region<%= team.Number %>" style="display:none">
Please select one:
<%: Html.DropDownListFor(V => V.memberID, new SelectList(Model.members, "ID","Name")) %>
</div>
<% } %>
I use JQuery in javascript part like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
function AlterPanel(thePanel) {
$("#region" + thePanel.toString()).css("display", "block");
}
</script>
Don't forget include the following file in View():
<script type="text/javascript" src="<%= Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js") %>"></script>
if the answer is not what you want, let mt know and I can help you~ :)

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