jQuery Mobile - Listview Autodivider Selector

Description

The first character of the list item is used by the autodivider plugin by default. The autodividersSelector option helps to return a different string.

Example

Following example demonstrates the use of listview autodivider selector in the jQuery Mobile.

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <meta name = "viewport" content = "width = device-width, initial-scale = 1">
      <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css">
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.js"></script>
      
      <script>
         $(document).ready(function() {
            var dateList  =  $("#selector");
            for(var i = 0, len = selector.length; i<len; i++) {
               dateList.append("<li>"+selector[i]+"</li>");
            }

            dateList.listview ({
               autodividersSelector: function ( li ) {
                  var d  =  new Date(li.text());
                  return (d.getMonth()+1)+ "/" + d.getDate() + "/" + d.getFullYear();
               }
            }).listview("refresh");
         });
      </script>
   </head>
   
   <body>
      <ul data-role = "listview" data-inset = "true" id = "selector" 
         data-autodividers = "true">
         <li><a href = "#">01/01/2016 09:15:00</a></li>
         <li><a href = "#">01/05/2016 10:00:00</a></li>
         <li><a href = "#">01/05/2016 12:45:00</a></li>
         <li><a href = "#">01/12/2016 12:00:00</a></li>
         <li><a href = "#">01/12/2016 18:30:00</a></li>
         <li><a href = "#">01/16/2016 14:00:00</a></li>
      </ul>
   </body>
</html>

Output

Let's carry out the following steps to see how the above code works −

Save the above html code as listview_autodivider_selector.html file in your server root folder.
Open this HTML file as http://localhost/listview_autodivider_selector.html and the following output will be displayed.

jquery_mobile_widgets.htm