Retrieves the theme of the nearest parent that has a theme assigned. This method is no longer useful, since theme inheritance is implemented entirely in CSS as of jQuery Mobile 1.4.0. jQuery.mobile.getInheritedTheme( el, defaultTheme ) el jQuery A jQuery collection objec

Utility method for determining the directory portion of an URL. Utility method for determining the directory portion of an URL. If the URL has no trailing slash, the last component of the URL is considered to be a file. This function returns the directory portion of a given URL. jQuery.mobile.path.get( url ) url

Utility method for retrieving the URL of the original document. jQuery.mobile.path.getDocumentUrl( asParsedObject ) asParsedObject (default: false) Boolean The function normally returns the original document's URL as a string. However, if you specify a truthy value for this parameter, the origi

Load an external page, enhance its content, and insert it into the DOM. Load an external page, enhance its content, and insert it into the DOM. This method is called internally by the changePage() function when its first argument is a URL. This function does not affect the current active page so it can be used to load pages in the background. The function returns a deferred promise object that gets resolved after the page has been enhanced and

Alter the url and track history. Works for browsers with and without the new history API. The $.mobile.navigate method provides a uniform history manipulation API for browsers that support the new history API and those that don't (hashchange). It works in concert with the navigate event by storing and retrieving arbitrary data in association with a URL (much like popState and replaceState). When the user returns to a URL set by the navigate met

Alter the input type of form widgets. Some native input types have undesirable native behavior. jQuery.mobile.degradeInputsWithin will alter the input type of such elements during page creation to fallback input types whose native behavior is acceptable. You can then achieve the user experience you desire by instantiating jQuery Mobile widgets on the modified native elements. jQuery.mobile.degradeInput

Retrieve the URL of the original document. jQuery.mobile.getDocumentUrl( asParsedObject ) asParsedObject (default: false) Boolean The function normally returns the original document's URL as a string. However, if you specify a truthy value for this parameter, the original document's URL will be

Utility method for retrieving the original document base URL. jQuery.mobile.getDocumentBase( asParsedObject ) asParsedObject (default: false) Boolean The function normally returns the original document base URL as a string. However, if you specify a truthy value for this parameter, the original

Reference to the page currently in view. Note: jQuery.mobile.activePage is deprecated as of jQuery Mobile 1.4.0 and will be removed in 1.5.0. Use the getActivePage() method from the pagecontainer widget instead.

Filter method to respect data-enhance=false parent elements during manual enhancement. For users that wish to respect data-enhance=false parent elements during manual enhancement or custom plugin authoring jQuery Mobile provides the $.fn.jqmEnhanceable filter method. Settings: If, and only if, $.mobile.ignoreContentEnabled is set to true, this method will traverse the parent nodes for each DOM element in the jQuery object and where it finds a