Is it possible to have buttons take the appearance of links in a jQuery Mobile Listview?

Question

I'm trying to create a Listview that contains a mix of buttons and links. Is there any additions/adjustments I can make to the markup to have buttons appear the same as links? At this stage, I'm trying to do as much as I can in markup and not custom CSS (or JS!)

The markup I'm using is:

<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
    <li><a href="#">Edit</a></li>
    <li>
        <form action="#">
            <button type="submit">Publish</button>
        </form>
    </li>
    <li>
        <form action="#">
            <button type="submit">Delete</button>
        </form>
    </li>
</ul>

What I'd like is this:

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I only seem able to get this:

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Answer 1

Here is a way to do it.

jQM 1.4

To get the arrow icons on the right, add the classes ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-icon-carat-r to the buttons:

<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
    <li><a href="#">Edit</a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <form action="#">
            <button type="submit" class="ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-icon-carat-r">Publish</button>
        </form>
    </li>
    <li>
        <form action="#">
            <button type="submit" class="ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-icon-carat-r">Delete</button>
        </form>
    </li>
</ul>

Then to remove the extra padding, borders, shadows etc. add this CSS:

.ui-li-static {
    padding: 0 !important;
}
.ui-li-static form button {
    margin: 0;
    box-shadow: none !important;
    border: 0;
    text-align: left;
}

Here is a DEMO

jQM 1.3

If you are stuck with jQM 1.3 it is a little more complicated:

<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
    <li><a href="#">Edit</a>
    </li>
    <li>
        <form action="#">
            <button type="submit" class="ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-icon-carat-r">Publish</button>
        </form>
        <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-arrow-r ui-icon-shadow fakeLinkIcon">&nbsp;</span>
    </li>
    <li>
        <form action="#">
            <button type="submit" class="ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-icon-carat-r">Delete</button>
        </form>
        <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-arrow-r ui-icon-shadow fakeLinkIcon">&nbsp;</span>
    </li>
</ul>

.ui-li-static {
    padding: 0 !important;
}
.fakeLinkIcon {
    position: absolute;
    right: 10px;
    top: 50%;
    margin-top: -9px;
}
.ui-li-static form div.ui-submit{
    padding-right: 2.5em;
}
.ui-li-static form div.ui-submit {
    margin: 0;
    box-shadow: none !important;
    border: 0;
    text-align: left;
    border-radius: 0;
}
.ui-li-static form div.ui-submit .ui-btn-inner{
    padding-left: 15px;  
}
.ui-last-child form div.ui-submit {
     border-bottom-right-radius: 16px;   
     border-bottom-left-radius: 16px;   
}
.ui-first-child form div.ui-submit {
     border-top-right-radius: 16px;   
     border-top-left-radius: 16px;   
}

DEMO