jQuery Mobile - Dynamically creating form elements

Yeah the issue is as you described. The 'mobilization' is fired when the document is ready. But since your offline DB queries are asynchronous it ends after the document.ready is fired. So the DOM is updated later in the process and doesn't have the extra CSS added to all the divs and list items.

I think you would have to change the source of the mobile js to not run on document ready but run when you tell it to run. Then you would have to call that function in your database callback.

Looks like that is the only option at the moment.

Traditionally I used jqtouch and now sencha. I haven't played much with jQuery mobile.

ALTERNATIVELY - you could write out your HTML after querying it out of the database with the necessary CSS styles on it. If you use Firebug plugin for Firefox you can see what styles / classes are getting applied when the mobilization runs. You could just write out your HTML using those conventions. Not ideal, but would work.

naugtur is right, you have to call .page() on any element that you add to the dom, then it works out nicely:

var el = $('<input type="text"/>')
el.page();
$('#something').append(el);