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Samik R
Samik R

Reputation: 1638

JQM: $.mobile.changepage not loading external .JS file

I am having a weird problem when trying to load an external JS file in a page which is loaded using $.mobile.changepage().

Following is my directory structure:

|_ /html
|   |_ conflist.html
|   |_ newpage.html
|_ /common
|   |_ jquery-1.7.2.min.js
|   |_ jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js
|   |_ jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css
|_ /platform
    |_ dummy.js

Here are the codes for conflist.html and newpage.html.

First, conflist.html:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <title>ConferenceToGo</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../common/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" />
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="../common/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="../common/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        function changePage() {
            $.mobile.changePage("newpage.html", { transition: "slide" });
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="firstpage" data-role="page">
    <div data-role="content">
        <input type="button" onclick="changePage()" value="Change Page (JQM)" /><br />
    </div><!-- /content -->

</div><!-- /page -->

</body>
</html>

Next, newpage.html:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <title>ConferenceToGo</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../common/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" />
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="../common/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="../common/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="newpage" data-role="page">
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="../platform/dummy.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        console.log("Inside test_newpage.html");
        var objDummy = new Dummy();
        objDummy.toString("test param");
    </script>
    <div data-role="content">
        <p>This is a new page !!</p>
    </div><!-- /content -->

</div><!-- /page -->

</body>
</html>

Finally, dummy.js:

var Dummy = function () { };
Dummy.prototype.toString = function (param) {
    console.log("String representation of 'Dummy', got param: " + param);
};

console.log("Loaded dummy.js");

Problem:

Wondering, why do I see this behavior? Why isn't the external js file loaded when it is placed in another folder and the relative path is given?

Update: I checked and this also works if I put dummy.js in a subfolder inside the html folder. Just can't have it outside it seems, unless I am missing something.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1542

Answers (3)

Wei Zhang
Wei Zhang

Reputation: 110

I think the reason might be the relative path of your js. I found that if you are using $.mobile.changePage(); only contents in the target page between the will be loaded, which means all the header content in target page will be ignored/not loaded. And when you reference js in the on your target page, the relative path should be base on the target html. and the "../" seems not working in this case.

Upvotes: 0

Jasper
Jasper

Reputation: 75993

Change your relative URLs to absolute ones. This will make sure you are referencing the correct file every time.

Your external page would look like this for example:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <title>ConferenceToGo</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/base/common/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" />
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="/base/common/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="/base/common/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="newpage" data-role="page">
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="/base/platform/dummy.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        console.log("Inside test_newpage.html");
        var objDummy = new Dummy();
        objDummy.toString("test param");
    </script>
    <div data-role="content">
        <p>This is a new page !!</p>
    </div><!-- /content -->

</div><!-- /page -->

</body>
</html>

Where /base/ is a top-level directory on your domain.

Upvotes: 0

Taifun
Taifun

Reputation: 6293

try to put your <script src="../platform/dummy.js"></script>into the head instead of the body... and: you do not need type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"anymore...

<head>
    <title>ConferenceToGo</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../common/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" />
    <script src="../platform/dummy.js"></script>
    <script src="../common/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <script src="../common/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>
</head>

Upvotes: 1

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