Force jQuery Mobile to update hash instead of URL for AJAX pages?

Question

I am using the default behavior of jQuery Mobile where my href links are pointing to different pages on my site. This changes the URL completely. Is there a way to make it update the hash instead of changing the URL? The page alone does not work when going directly, so a hash would make sense (good for bookmarking). Also I would not have to worry about relative pathing from there since I remain in the root of my site. Any way to do this like it does for dialog?

Answer 1

You can disable this by setting pushStateEnabled to false.

This is done in mobileinit event. For example:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).bind("mobileinit", function(){
    $.mobile.pushStateEnabled = false;
});
</script>

<script src="jquery-mobile.js"></script>

Note that mobileinit must be attached before jQuery mobile is included into page. For more information take a look at jQuery Mobile configuration defaults documentation page.