jquery/jquery-mobile — Issue #3436: Navbar div without body breaks changing pages
Author: thiloplanz
Created: 2012-01-16 04:09:14+00:00
State: open

Edit the "multi-page template" from the docs minimally by adding the following navbar in all footers:

(The navbar is initially empty and is to be filled in dynamically)

This completely breaks the ability to navigate between pages, by clicking anywhere, as well as by entering hashtags in the url or calling changePage from the console.

Replacing it with

fixes the problem.

There are no error messages displayed anywhere, which made this hard to debug.

Problem occurs on Safari 5.1.2 and also on Firefox 8.0.1. (both on Snow Leopard)