jQuery Mobile - Dynamic Toolbars

Description

You can inject toolbars dynamically on the click of a button. You need to update the page height and padding by invoking the following function.

$.mobile.resetActivePageHeight()

Example

Following example demonstrates the use of dynamic toolbars in jQuery Mobile.

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Dynamic Toolbars</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>
      
      <script>
         $( document ).on( "click", "#inject-toolbars", function() {
            $( "<div data-role = 'header'><h2>Dynamic Header</h2></div>")
               .prependTo( "#page-with-dynamic-toolbars" )
               .toolbar({ position: "fixed" });
     
            $( "<div data-role = 'footer'><h2>Dynamic Footer</h2></div>")
                .appendTo( "#page-with-dynamic-toolbars" )
                .toolbar({ position: "fixed" });
     
            $.mobile.resetActivePageHeight();
         });
      </script>
   </head>
   
   <body>
      <div data-role = "page" class = "jqm-demos" id = "page-with-dynamic-toolbars" 
         data-url = "page-with-dynamic-toolbars">
         <div role = "main" class = "ui-content jqm-content jqm-fullwidth">
            <h2>Page content</h2>
            <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do 
            eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad 
            minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip 
            ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate 
            velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.</p>
            
            <div data-demo-html = "#page-with-dynamic-toolbars" data-demo-js = "true">
               <button id = "inject-toolbars" class = "ui-btn ui-btn-inline 
               ui-corner-all">Inject toolbars</button>
            </div>
         </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_widget_dynamic.html file in your server root folder.
Open this HTML file as http://localhost/toolbar_widget_dynamic.html and the following output will be displayed.

jquery_mobile_widgets.htm

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