Applying jQuery Mobile attributes to XPages controls - jquery-mobile

I have just started looking into using jQuery Mobile on a XPages project. I am unsure whether I should use XPages controls or standard HTML controls in certain circumstances.
For example, I need a simple "Save" button on a page. An xp:button does get rendered with the jQuery Mobile style. But how would I then apply attributes to it, such "data-icon" and "data-inline"?
Or should I be using a standard HTML tag in this case? If so, I lose the ability to code XPages simple actions to, say, save the data sources.
Thanks for any tips.

If you are using 8.5.3 you can use the attr property of the button to add the data-icon and data-inline tags.
<xp:button value="Label" id="button1">
<xp:this.attrs>
<xp:attr name="data-icon" value="marky"></xp:attr>
</xp:this.attrs>
</xp:button>
If not then you can use jQuery to add the attribute using $().attr('data-icon', 'whatever'). Remember though the clientID of the button will change through the interface and you will need to adjust for that. You could you my x$ function
http://openntf.org/XSnippets.nsf/snippet.xsp?id=x-jquery-selector-for-xpages

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making unobtrusive validation work when using Select2 ASP.NET MVC

Select boxes converted to Select2, do not automatically integrate with unobtrusive validation mechanism in ASP.NET MVC framework.
For example, on a form which contains a regular select box (marked as required in model definition), submitting the form while no options have been selected in the select box, will cause the border and background of the select box to take a reddish color, and by using #Html.ValidationMessageFor, error messages, if any, can be displayed beside the box. However if the select box is converted to a Select2 component, then none of the mentioned features work any more. Even the validation error message will not show up.
It seems that the reason for even the validation error message not showing, is because Select2 changes the display CSS property of the original select box to none (display:none), and I guess the unobtrusive validation script does not bother generating error messages for invisible fields.
Any ideas / solutions?
This issue isn't really specific to Select2, but rather to the jQuery unobtrusive validator.
You can turn on validation for hidden fields as highlighted in this answer.
$.validator.setDefaults({
ignore: ''
});
As the comments noted, it didn't work inside an anonymous callback function within $(document).ready(). I had to put it at the top level.
I've run into similar issues with the select2 plugin. I don't know exactly which features you're using specifically, but in my experience, when you set an element as a select2 in the document.ready event, the plugin will change some of the element's attributes on the fly (inspect one of the elements after your page has finished loading - oftentimes you'll see the id and class properties are different than what you're seeing when you view source).
It's difficult to offer more without actually seeing the code, but here's a few ideas to get you started:
First off, obviously make sure you have the a link to your select2.css stylesheet in the header.
Then, since you're talking about form submissions, I'd recommend you examine whether or not you're getting a full postback or submitting via AJAX (if you're using jQueryMobile, you're using AJAX unless you override it in the jquerymobile.js file or set a data-ajax="false" in your form attributes). You can just look at the value returned by Request.IsAjaxRequest() for this. Obviously if you're submitting via ajax, you won't hit the document.ready event and the select2 won't initialize properly and you'd need to figure out a way around that. Try refreshing the page after the submit and see if it renders the select2 component.
Then I'd suggest examining the elements and see if they're not behaving like you'd expect because you're actually trying to work with classes that the plugin has reassigned at runtime. You can either just adjust your logic, or you can dig into the select2 code itself and change the behavior - it's actually fairly well-documented what the code is doing, and if you hop on the Google group for select2, Igor is usually pretty quick to follow up with questions.
like this
$('select').on('select2:select', function (evt){
$(this).blur();
});
$('body').on('change', 'select.m-select2', function () {
$(this).blur();
})

How do programatically change the attributes of <sj:tabbedpanel>

I am using Struts jQuery plugin. Problem is with <sj:tabbedpanel>.
I want to preselect the tab depending on the input while loading the page.
I know there is property selectedTab="1".
But I want it to change it while loading the page using jQuery.
In jQuery-UI plugin, there is function $("#tab").tabs('selected',2) which does that.
What is the similar function which does the same thing here.
Try this:
<sj:tabbedpanel id="tabbed" selectedTab="%{selected}"></sj:tabbedpanel>
selected should be a parameter, which decides the opened tab.
If you still wanna use jQuery, please check the api: jQuery Tabs API
here is the important part:
A series of events fire when interacting with a tabs interface:
tabsselect, tabsload, tabsshow (in that order)
tabsadd, tabsremove
tabsenable, tabsdisable
If you want to do this from javascript then use option to set selected tab.
$("#tab").tabs( "option", "selected", 2);

Integrating Django-dynamic-formsets with JQuery Mobile's Radio Buttons

I am using Django and the django-dynamic-formset plugin to generate a JQuery Mobile (JQM) site. I have nested forms that allow the user to click a "Add" link to another line to the form. This works great without JQM, but when JQM is used to style the form widgets the radio button labels do not trigger the correct radio button.
I have put up a static example of the behaviour, based on the generated HTML. Click the "Add" link, then try choosing a severity for the added item. The "for" attributes of the labels appear to update correctly, so I do not know what I'm doing wrong.
The django-dynamic-formset guide provides me with a way to call a JavaScript function after the user clicks the "Add" button, but I do not know if there's a JQM method I should be calling that will fix the issue. When I use JQM's enhanceWithin function it triggers a page load, which submits my form to Django, which I don't want at that point because the form won't validate yet.
Edit: I uploaded a much better example to the same URL.
After enough caffeine and peanut M&M's I have figured it out.
Reason for Failure: The django-dynamic-formset (DDF) plugin duplicates the form you give it. But the form is cloned as-is, which already includes all the JQuery Mobile (JQM) processing. This causes JQM to ignore it and makes the radio buttons misbehave.
The Solution: The DDF plugin allows you to specify what form to clone by its formTemplate parameter. JQM allows you to disable automatic mobile-enhancement of certain elements. Create an un-enhanced version of your form, and pass that to DDF as your formTemplate.
More Details:
I put this coded into my HTML head, before the reference to JQM:
<script>
$(document).bind('mobileinit',function(){
$.mobile.ignoreContentEnabled = true; // required for using the natural forms
});
</script>
And included this style to hide my "natural" form:
<style>
.natural-form { visibility: hidden; display: none; }
</style>
In the Django code I added a <div class='natural-form> and put a dummy version of my form in it (being sure to surround it another <div> with a unique ID for reference later). In my initialization of DDF I give it the unique ID as the parameter to formTemplate.
I was told on another forum I would have to hack DDF and JQM to get this to work. I am impressed at the design of both of these libraries - flexible enough that a newbie to JQuery can stick all the pieces in the right places and get something out of it.

Editable select/combobox

is there any way (or plugin) to display editable combobox? I have a set of options, but I would like to give possibility to enter custom value.
I've searched the documentation, and I can't find way to do this. I made workaround with javascript, but I'm looking for more elegant solution.
I'm pretty sure that there simply is no HTML form element that does this, and so Rails can't provide you with a helper. As you said, you can work with JS to create something similar (and there should be JS libraries/plugins already out there), or you could just use a select element and add a text field next to it for new values.
HTML5 specification doesn't define such an element. So you may either continue using JS, either try to use autocomplete feature of an input element (although it is not exactly what you want and doesn't compatible with old browsers).

Using specific elements of jQuery Mobile and not others

Is there any way of using jQuery Mobile for only certain features such as toggle on/off switches but not have it take over the entire CSS?
You can use native form elements:
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0rc2/docs/forms/forms-all-native.html
Related:
Tell JQuery Mobile not to add classes?
You can set this per element with a data-role="none" attribute on the element or bind to the mobileinit event like so:
$(document).bind('mobileinit',function(){
$.mobile.page.prototype.options.keepNative = "select, input.foo, textarea.bar";
});
Notice how you can add classes to the selectors.
From the docs:
Or, if you'd like to prevent auto-initialization without adding
attributes to your markup, you can customize the selector that is used
for preventing auto-initialization by setting the page plugin's
keepNative option (which defaults to [data-role="none"]. Be sure to
configure this option inside an event handler bound to the mobileinit
event, so that it applies to the first page as well as subsequent
pages that are loaded.
Docs on this can be found here: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0rc2/docs/forms/docs-forms.html

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