jQuery Mobile - changePage and select menu not working

Question

This is my first time with jQuery Mobile and I'm actually using it from a WP theme I got. I understand that this might be theme related but I just want to make sure.

So, it is a Wordpress jQuery Mobile theme, you plug it and it works a treat. The thing is, I've converted the Wordpress menu from an UL to a SELECT.

I have then added some jQuery to fire the select on change by getting the value of the selected option. That works, I get the loading thinggy and then the page changes with my desired effect.

But I can't get the Select menu to show the current selected item. It always reverts to the first one.

I have used:

$('#main_menu').selectmenu("refresh");
$('#main_menu').selectmenu("refresh", true);

But nothing...

You can have a look at the site here: http://avatarblog.fl1hosting.com/ and look at the source.

You will see that my mobile event are all before the jQuery Mobile include, which doesn't make much sense to me, but if I put them afterwards, nothing works.

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to set which option to show in the select menu. Try this,

$("#main_menu")[0].selectedIndex = 2; // this will select the 3rd in the menu list
$("#main_menu").selectmenu("refresh");

You can add the following script your header.php:

$(document)
.unbind("pageshow.initMenuBtn")
.bind("pageshow.initMenuBtn", 
    function() {
        $.mobile.activePage = $("div.ui-page-active");
        $("#main_menu", $.mobile.activePage)
          .unbind("change")
          .bind("change", function() {
                var page = $(this).val();
                $.mobile.changePage(page);
            });

        var selectedIndex = 0;
        $("#main_menu>option", $.mobile.activePage).each(function(index) {
            if ($(this).hasClass("current-menu-item")) {
                selectedIndex = index;
            }
        });
        $("#main_menu", $.mobile.activePage)[0].selectedIndex = selectedIndex;
        $("#main_menu", $.mobile.activePage).selectmenu("refresh");
    });