Adding Back Button to Header

Description

jQuery mobile framework generates a back button on a header, when a header has a data-add-back-btn = "true" attribute or the page plugin's addBackBtn option is set to true.

Adding data-rel = "back" on an anchor will take you to the history entry, ignoring the default href.

You can provide the back button text using data-back-btn-text = "previous" attribute or you can set plugin's options in the following way.

$.mobile.toolbar.prototype.options.backBtnText = "previous";

Example

Following example demonstrates the use of adding back button to header in jQuery Mobile.

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Adding back button to header</title>
      <link href = "//code.jquery.com/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.css" rel = "stylesheet">
      <script src = "//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.1.min.js"></script>
      <script src = "//code.jquery.com/mobile/1.2.0/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.min.js"></script>
   </head>
   
   <body>
      <div id = "page1" data-role = "page" data-add-back-btn = "true">
         <div data-role = "header">
            <h2>Header</h2>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "content">
            Go to <a href = "#page2">page2</a>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "footer">
            <h2>Footer</h2>
         </div>
      </div>
      
      <div data-role = "page" data-add-back-btn = "true" data-back-btn-text = "Previous" id = "page2">
         <div data-role = "header">
            <h2>Header</h2>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "content">
            Go to <a href = "#page1">page1</a>
         </div>
         
         <div data-role = "footer">
            <h2>Footer</h2>
         </div>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>

Output

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

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

jquery_mobile_widgets.htm