jQuery Mobile - Navbars Icons

Description

To add icons to your navbar use data-icon attribute to each anchor. By default, icons are placed at the top of the text.

Example

Following example demonstrates the use of navbar icons in jQuery Mobile.

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Navbar Icons</title>
      <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>
   </head>

   <body>
      <div data-role = "navbar">
         <ul>
            <li><a href = "#" data-icon = "mail">Messages</a></li>
            <li><a href = "#" data-icon = "user" class = "ui-btn-active">Friends</a></li>
            <li><a href = "#" data-icon = "star">Notifications</a></li>
         </ul>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Output

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

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

jquery_mobile_widgets.htm