I was going through some basic tutorial on jQueryMobile and would like to know -
what are the different databinding options available for jQueryMobile?
I searched and as a result found only knockoutjs -
Is it the only way to go or can I bind the controls like we generally do for normal html controls?
Essentially, I want to use jQueryMobile with MVC 4 and bind the controls with JSON.
Please guide.
You should be able to treat a jquery mobile site built with MVC just as you do any other MVC application. You may run into issues with jqm based ajax navigation but that can be turned off with data-ajax="false".
http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/forms/forms-sample.html
You can also make this change globally: "jQuery Mobile will automatically handle link clicks and form submissions through Ajax, when possible. If false, URL hash listening will be disabled as well, and URLs will load as ordinary HTTP requests."
$(document).bind("mobileinit", function(){
$.mobile.ajaxEnabled = false;
});
http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/api/globalconfig.html
In the end, ajax based navigation is about performance. If you want to go with generic asp.net MVC, you will have to weigh these trade offs.
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background:
We have a legacy system running the now dead Autocomplete plugin for jquery. We use it in multiple places on an intranet web UI. Until recently the client ran IE6 (yes, I know...) and this was all fairly static.
We're going to rededevelop the old front end of the UI. At the moment I'm considering using either jQuery UI or Bootstrap + Typeahead.
question:
The fields we use the autocomplete functionality often chain the values of other fields (themselves using autocompleted), passing these values as additional paramaters to our back end script. Is there an easy way to include these with the twitter bootstrap/typeahead method as there is with jQuery-UI?
If it's not too rude an example of each using additional parameters would be amazing.
Thanks in advance
edit:
I'm asking because I think bootstrap is smaller/lighter and less work to generate a nice UI.
We are using the Kendo UI Web (Free Version) autocomplete along with Bootstrap 3 and it is working very well.
The look is not like the other form elements generated by Bootstrap due to KendoUI CSS, but that seems minor.
We are also using MVVM pattern and Kendo Observables (Similary to Knockout) which makes it very easy to pass parameters to the backend systems.
I am developing a hybrid mobile app using jQuery Mobile and AngularJS.
I decided to use a mix of the two for the following:
jQuery Mobile
good UI features
not too heavyweight (compared to Sencha Touch, for example)
AngularJS
good performance and resource management (caching, asynchronous requests)
personal experience
I have little to no experience with jQuery Mobile and, as I was learning, I noticed a potential conflict between the page navigation models of the two.
Should I use only one ?
If yes, which one is better suited for my needs ?
Are there any gotchas with this setup ?
Many thanks.
You can't compare them to each other.
Angular.js (like Backbone, Ember eg.) are MV* Frameworks (for SPA) which used to render html templates/views directly in the client instead of server. So you have a lot of application logic now in your frontend and this Frameworks are made to make your life better, coding this.
jQuery Mobile on the other side is a pure widget/plugin library. The AJAX navigation plugin load pages (something static, like html) into the DOM via AJAX. So you have to pre-render this pages on the server somehow.
If you started to build a SPA with Angular it doesn't make sense to use jQuery Mobile's AJAX navigation at all. (If it's a native mobile app you have no server anyway.)
Sure, you won't get far without an UI component library so use one of your choice (eg. jQM) but work with Angular's directives to init the plugins/widgets correctly on your DOM elements since a $(document).ready(...) or a $(document).on( "pageload", ... ) doesn't know anything about your Angular views.
Take a look at following projects:
http://angular-ui.github.io
https://github.com/angular-widgets/angular-jqm
This has been already addressed in HERE
Basically the article states that trying to intercept the navigation from angular can be painful, so leave all the routing jqm
As I am newbie to JQuery. I have certain questions in mind regarding JQuery.
Can I make complete website with Jquery?
Means in ASP.Net website we use Server Controls to design page, Can we make all this functionality on .ASPX page using JQuery?
If yes, then how to handle server side events?
For designing .ASPX pages, what we prefer to use? JQuery standard controls or Plugin?
No. JQuery is not a server-side framework. It's a client side DOM Manipulation domain specific language and API that enables client-side code to work cross-browser, and includes a variety of utility and helper functions for AJAX, deferred callback resolution, and generic functional programming.
In short, it is not meant to replace your server-side code.
The jQuery framework is only a javascript library which means it can only handle events or actions on the client-side. It doesn't matter what backend you are using for your website (PHP, ASP.Net, Python), javascript only works once the page has been rendered and sent to the browser. Try reading up on the docs for jQuery here: http://docs.jquery.com/
If you have any questions specifically about jQuery programming, we would be more than happy to answer them.
I'm working on a asp.net mvc2 app. I have been using jquery to do various different things in all of my views. They are work from a regular browser quite well. But I'm trying to figure out a good way to get the functionality working with browsers with javascript disabled (like mobile browsers). Is there a way to define a whole different view for non javascript browsers?
A specific example of what I'm trying to do is, I have a <button> with it's onClick calling a javascript that does $.post() to a controller.
What's a good way to make it, so, it works the way it works right now (doing ajax calls) with regular javascript-enabled browsers and it a also works with javascript-incapable browsers, doing a full postback ?
Thanks
I use the unobtrusive javascript approach; get the app working without JavaScript, then add in extensibility with JQuery so that the app will work when scripts are turned off, or if the JS fails to download.
Same approach I believe that #James Kolpack is talking about. This is the true failsafe approach. While you can detect the support of JS by the browser through Request.Browser, this isn't accurate to most of the possible scenarios.
One of the things I like about coding "old skool" (web forms) is the AJAX Control Toolkit.
I saw on the Microsoft Storefront video 14, Rob Conery uses the TextboxWatermark control.
When I downloaded the code though, I couldn't find any reference to the Watermark control or any other control from the toolkit nor could I get it to work.
So my question is, does the AJAX Control Toolkit even work in an MVC / AJAX / JQuery type world without viewstate. What do you use for "simple" controls such as Calendar & Watermarks?
jQuery UI has a calendar and other UI components. Also check out the vast number of jQuery plugins.
I've been looking into this question recently and what I've found is that the AJAX Control Toolkit is not easy to use in the "JavaScript only" manner that you'd want to use for ASP.NET MVC. In fact it's a real pain. Here are two examples:
Example 1 - Popup Calendar
Example 2 - Auto Complete Text Field
Neither are easy.
You can give your MVC pages a code-behind and use the AJAX Control Toolkit as you would in regular ASP.NET, but that really violates the whole idea of MVC, so I wouldn't advise it.
My suggestion would be to follow Fredrik Kalseth's advice and use jQuery UI or one of the many plugins. Telerik also has some good looking Open Source MVC Controls that are based on jQuery.
Most of the AJAX Control Toolkit is available in MVC-friendly javascript form off the MS AJAX CDN. These can be used using a jquery plug-in syntax as well.