Navbars Icons

Description

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

Example

The below example demonstrates the use of navbar icons in jQuery Mobile.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
   <title>Navbar Icons</title>
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css">
   <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
   <script src="http://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 above code works:

Save above html code as navbar_icons.html file in your server root folder.
Open this HTML file as http://localhost/navbar_icons.html and output as below gets displayed.