URL with JQuery Mobile - url

I am using JQuery mobile in asp.net web form website. I have the following code at the page "pageA.aspx".
View Saved Orders
When I am clicking on this link I am successfully redirected to the PageB, but the URL I am getting is
http://localhost:3244/MyFirstJQueryApp/PageA.aspx#PageB.aspx
But I want URL like this further processing, please help
http://localhost:3244/MyFirstJQueryApp/PageB.aspx

I have done it by setting target="_top" property.
Is this a good practice ?

There are a couple of mods out there (can't find the one I wanted) to remove the hash in the URL, but you have to edit the jQM framework.
You could try using the changePage() http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a4.1/#docs/api/methods.html and set the transition without tracking it in history option to true (I think it's true)
Here is some more documentation on navigation as well: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a4.1/#docs/pages/docs-navmodel.html
mightbe able to think of another way

The idea behind jQuery Mobile is that you don't do it the way you're trying to do it! Check Dynamic pages with jQuery Mobile, which shows you how to let jQm do the work in the background by loading new data into the DOM.

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Get Parameters of Link Clicked jQuery Mobile

I've been looking to find a way to get the url parameters of the link that was clicked in my pagebeforeshow event
$(document).on('pagebeforeshow', '#category',function(e,data){
})
With the link looking like this (you can also see I added a data attribute)
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I've read a bunch of different answers on here and tried lots of them, but I've discovered that they are looking to use the current url of the page to get the parameters. However the current page url does not have the parameters in it (as I'm using pagebeforeshow)
And then I've seen other examples where people are manually changing pages using jQuery.mobile.changePage but to me it seems like overkill having to add click listeners to my buttons and then manually pass in parameters using changePage for each of them
I have also looked at this plugin which probably would work, but I am reluctant to use a plugin for something which to me seems so simple
I just need to be able to access the url or the data-cat attribute that was clicked, but I can't seem to find an efficient way to do it without having to a click listener and then manually changing the page, surely there's a better way?
Update: jQuery Mobile 1.4.2

jQuery Mobile 1.4 Page Navigation

I need to use jQuery Mobile to build an app and I'm stuck at page navigation. I'm using jQuery Mobile 1.4. And the documentation doesn't help me very much. I have a few questions. Any help would be appreciated. Also please point out if I misunderstood anything.
I understood that $.mobile.navigate is the recommended method to change between pages in jQuery Mobile 1.4. Hoe can I use it to send data from one page to another?
What is the need for pagecontainer widget's load method? The change method itself seems to load an external page.
When I use the pagecontainer widget's change method to load an external page, it loads the page into the DOM and changes to it as expected. But, when I go back, the external page is removed from the DOM. Is there anyway to load an external page only once and let it persist in the DOM as long as the app is running?

Backbone and jQuery Mobile App resetting after browser back button

I am building an app using Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile. On some pages in my app I have external href links and I'm running into an issue.
When a user clicks and external href link, get taken to the external site and then hits the back button. My app does not load from the proper page where the user originally left the app from.
In fact my entire DOM is reset so it looks like my site gets a complete refresh and doesn't keep any of its former state.
I have been trying to search for a solution but this issue is kind of hard to word out. I hope it makes sense.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
UPDATE
Stupid error on my part.. I had a bad id set on the page and it didn't load the data I had saved in the session for it when a user returns to the page.. Changed the id and all is well. Thanks!
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Make you external links open up new tabs.
If you have used one html with multiple pages solution then there's an explanation for this.
rel="external" will cause a full page refresh so last page location will not be remebered. When you return to the last location it will trigger new refresh and the first page will be shown again.
This can be prevented with a multiple html page solution.

jQuery mobile: URL query string does not change

I'm playing around with jQuery Mobile and ran into some (for me) strange behavior.
I have a bunch of links each pointing to the same jQM page, #otherpage, but with different values for the URL query string, like #otherpage?q=foo, #otherpage?q=bar, and so on. The change to the other page works fine but the query string sticks between clicks, so if I first click the link to #otherpage?q=foo, and then goes back to the first page, all subsequent page changes to #otherpage will have q=foo, no matter what the currently clicked link's href says.
jsFiddle didn't seem to have support for jQM so I put an example here: http://cpak.se/dump/location-search-test.html
I've tried this in Chrome and Safari on Mac.
I use the query string to pass simple data between pages since I have other code hooked into the pagechange events, that is more or less unaware of what earlier code might have done. If I can't get this working I'll have to find another way to pass data around... :P
Cheers!
/Christofer
Disabling jQm seems to be the easiest solution for updating the url parameters correctly in the browser. E.g. adding data-ajax="false" in the link anchor and not using $.mobile.changePage.
<a href="#page?id=1" data-ajax="false">
In a dynamic app modify the value of href beforehand.
I've looked up for this issue because it seems a little bit weird indeed. There is a open issue about this: https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/2859
Atm jQuery Mobile doesn't recommend using query parameters:
We don't currently support query parameters as part of the hash
fragment, though this is something that's been discussed frequently
internally and is on the feature request list.
They advise to use a plugin like:
https://github.com/jblas/jquery-mobile-plugins/tree/master/page-params
https://github.com/azicchetti/jquerymobile-router
However, there is a workaround since the data-url of the active page in the DOM DOES change, you can retrieve this with $(".ui-page-active").attr("data-url"); I've tested this on your website and it gave me all 3 uniques URLs
jQuery Mobile by default does not allow passing query-string parameters to internally linked pages. Check-out the very bottom of this documentation page (the second bullet from the bottom of the page): http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0rc3/docs/pages/page-navmodel.html
jQuery Mobile does not support query parameter passing to
internal/embedded pages but there are two plugins that you can add to
your project to support this feature. There is a lightweight page
params plugin and a more fully featured jQuery Mobile router
plugin for use with backbone.js or spine.js.

JQuery Mobile, problem with loading form submitted pages

I'm working on a mobile view of our site. I'm trying to implement JQuery mobile but I'm seeing two issues that might prevent me from continuing and hoping some of you have insights.
Many pages are brought up by searches. But when the page is brought up from a search box I can't get it to load as rel='external', thus the page loads via Ajax. Great, except the pages that load are almost always larger pages broken up into data-role='page'. So when the page loads it's unable to navigate within that page, though it does hide the secondary sections. According to the documentation I need to put the rel="external" on the form, but that is not working for me. Is it possible to get the page to load without Ajax via a form submit?
Second question in same topic. In the crawl, walk, run fashion first step is a basic mobile friendly site. But I'm hoping this can also be the foundation for a PhoneGap based version of the site. From what I understand the basic model for PhoneGap will break if pages are not always loaded in Ajax as it will trigger a browser load. Since JQM requires any page with embeded data-role=page sections to be loaded via rel=external, which turns off Ajax loading, does this mean using JQM will preclude using Phone Gap to create the native client later?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
This script below should be put between your jquery min and your jquery mobile min. Otherwise it will not take effect. Adding an extension to the $.mobile with these ajax functionalities turned off may help your issue. All 3 are not needed, but they are all test worthy for your issue.
<script>
$(document).bind('mobileinit',function(){
$.extend( $.mobile , {
ajaxFormsEnabled: false,
ajaxLinksEnabled: false,
ajaxEnabled: false
});
});
</script>
Phonegap is for building phone applications, not mobile websites. It is composed Javascript which talks to specific libraries to interface with the mobile device itself.

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