jquery mobile textarea causes error

Question

I have a jquery mobile page (version 1.3.1) which is exhibiting strange behaviour

I'm trying to use a text area If I put

<textarea></textarea> 

on the page I get the error

Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'on' jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.js:4

If I remove

<textarea></textarea> 

the error disappears

I get the same error with

<textarea  cols="40" rows="8" name="message1" id="message1"></textarea>

Answer 1

This error:

Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'on'

will be thrown if jQuery version older then 1.7 is used.

Function on was introduced in version 1.7