Events

jQuery Mobile also exposes several events that are helpful when you need to programmatically apply pre or post processing during page changes within your Mobile Web application. In this section we will review the complete list of jQuery Mobile page events that you may bind to in your own code. For an introduction of the jQuery Mobile events lets begin with a diagram (Figure 8-1). This diagram shows the main page events that occur within jQuery Mobile and helps depict the sequence of each event in the page change lifecycle.

Figure 8-1. jQuery Mobile Page Events

Now that we have seen the sequence in which page events are triggered within the page change lifecycle, let’s look at the details of each specific event.