Comments on: JQuery Mobile, Part 3: Attack of the Forms http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7946/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: tpp http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7946/#comment-8854 tpp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7946/#comment-8854 <p>The example of <code>var theField = $("firstname");</code> is missing a pound sign. It should be <code>var theField = $("#firstname");</code> See the id selector documentation here: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a2/#experiments/api-viewer/docs/id-selector/index.html</p> <p>Also, the input filed with a name id attribute of "firstname" should have an attribute of "firstname" because we are using <code>getElementById("<id>")</code></p> <p><code><input name="firstname" id="firstname" type="text"/></code> </p> The example of var theField = $("firstname"); is missing a pound sign. It should be var theField = $("#firstname"); See the id selector documentation here: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a2/#experiments/api-viewer/docs/id-selector/index.html

Also, the input filed with a name id attribute of “firstname” should have an attribute of “firstname” because we are using getElementById("<id>")

<input name="firstname" id="firstname" type="text"/>

]]> By: wstidolph http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7946/#comment-8855 wstidolph Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7946/#comment-8855 <p>Short-term warning: the alpha2 dist of jqm doesn't work with SELECT "multiple" ... this requires jqm version a3pre. This confused me, because the jqm online docs are published from the head of the tree (the /test subdir at github) while the CDN distribution links are for alpha2.</p> <p>Another notable characteristic of the jqm approach is that it rewrites your page somewhat, and this can interact poorly with other dynamic page-generation libraries (e.g., using 'knockout' to dynamically generate <OPTION> elements results in OPTIONS which are not visible on the jqm-styled page). </p> Short-term warning: the alpha2 dist of jqm doesn’t work with SELECT “multiple” … this requires jqm version a3pre. This confused me, because the jqm online docs are published from the head of the tree (the /test subdir at github) while the CDN distribution links are for alpha2.

Another notable characteristic of the jqm approach is that it rewrites your page somewhat, and this can interact poorly with other dynamic page-generation libraries (e.g., using ‘knockout’ to dynamically generate <OPTION> elements results in OPTIONS which are not visible on the jqm-styled page).

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