How do I prevent a link from adding to the history stack with jQuery Mobile

Question

Using jQuery mobile, I am using a list view with a previous and next links for pagination. Everything works fine, but I do not want the prev and next pages to add to the history stack. The idea is that hitting back will just go to the actual previous page.

The only thing I have found to do this is to add data-rel="dialog" to the a tags, but I don't want it to be a pop-up dialog.

Otherwise I tried to add

$.mobile.nonHistorySelectors="dialog,pagination"

to the mobileinit event, with the attribute data-rel="pagination" added to the a tag. But this only throws errors when the links are clicked (the error also occurs even without the nonHistorySelectors added to the mobileinit event).

EDIT:

The closest thing I have found is this JS

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(".page-prev").click(function(e) {
        e.stopPropagation();
        e.preventDefault();

        $.mobile.changePage(this.href, {changeHash:false, reverse:true});
    });

    $(".page-next").click(function(e) {
        e.stopPropagation();
        e.preventDefault();

        $.mobile.changePage(this.href, {changeHash:false});
    });
</script>

and this HTML

<a href="/blog?page=1" class="page-prev" data-role="button" data-icon="arrow-l">Prev</a>
<a href="/blog?page=3" class="page-next" data-role="button" data-icon="arrow-r">Next</a>

This seems to do well to keep the browsers history from being updated, but sometimes when click next the pages sliding around will do some funky things, such as loading/sliding twice. Plus one thing that it fails to do is that if I were to navigate to a page from here and come back, it will be back at page 1.

Answer 1

There is no mechanism to delete silently anything from browsing history.

You should use AJAX to populate your list. And so your links will look like <a href="javascript:renderNextPage()">

Answer 2

Do this and it should be fine:

 // Fix for back buttons
    $(document).on('vclick', '[data-rel=back]', function(e) {
        e.stopImmediatePropagation();
        e.preventDefault();
        // $.mobile.back(e);
        var back = $.mobile.activePage.prev('[data-role=page]');
        $.mobile.changePage(back, {
            transition: 'slide',
            reverse: true,
            changeHash: false
        });
    });

Answer 3

Does it work to add data-rel="back" to the anchor tag?

This is the solution suggested on the jQuery Mobile demo documentation, under 'Back linking'.

http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0b1/#/demos/1.0b1/docs/pages/docs-pages.html

Answer 4

The data-rel attr has worked for me

<a data-rel="dialog" ... 

As per the documentation

Link Links, including those with a data-role="button", and form submit buttons share these attributes

data-rel back (to move one step back in history)

dialog (to open link styled as dialog, not tracked in history)

external (for linking to another domain)

https://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.0/docs/pages/page-links.html

Answer 5

I had the same problem, My solution was to split up the site navigation and the pagination navigation into two separate navigation menus. So I have the header navigation with the site navigation and would add the next/prev navigation buttons to the page: AJAX Request Help for next/previous page

Live Example:

• http://jsfiddle.net/Jaybles/MawSB/

UPDATE:

Here is a fast example of what I mean:

• http://jsfiddle.net/phillpafford/trdYP/26/

JS:

var currentPage=1;
loadCurrentPage();

$("#next, #prev").click(function(){
    currentPage= ($(this).attr('id')=='next') ? currentPage + 1 : currentPage - 1;

    if (currentPage==0) 
        currentPage=1;
    else if (currentPage==101) 
        currentPage=100;
    else
        loadCurrentPage();
});

function loadCurrentPage(){
    //$('input').attr('disabled','disabled');
    $('#displayResults').html('<img src="http://blog-well.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/indicator-big-2.gif" />');

    $.ajax({
        url: '/echo/html/',
        data: 'html=Current Page: ' + currentPage+'&delay=1',
        type: 'POST',
        success: function (data) {
           // $('input').attr('disabled','');
            $('#displayResults').html(data);
        }
    });

    $('#home').page();
}

HTML:

<div data-role="page" id="home"> 
    <div data-role="content">
        <ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true" data-theme="c" data-dividertheme="f"> 
            <li data-role="list-divider">Home Page</li> 
            <li><a href="#page2">Page 2</a></li> 
        </ul> 
        <input id="next" type="button" value="Next" />
        <input id="prev" type="button" value="Previous" /> 
        <div id="displayResults" name="displayResults">
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
<!-- Page 2 -->
<div data-role="page" id="page2"> 
    <div data-role="content">
        <ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true" data-theme="c" data-dividertheme="f"> 
            <li data-role="list-divider">Page 2</li> 
            <li><a href="#home">Home Page</a></li> 
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>