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JQuery Mobile Split Screen 20-80 hack


Use JQuery Mobile's Grid Layout and just override "width" on "ui-block-a" and "ui-block-b" to split screen as per your need.

Tested on : iPad, iPhone, and PC


Below is fully functional page, you can download and open it in a browser to see the live demo. 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title></title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=MacRoman">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0b2/jquery.mobile-1.0b2.min.css" />
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.0b2/jquery.mobile-1.0b2.min.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div data-role="page" id="foo">
            <div data-role="header">
                <h1>Foo</h1>
            </div>
            <div data-role="content" >
                <div class="ui-grid-a">
                    <div class="ui-block-a" style="width:20%">
                        <div class="ui-bar ui-bar-e" style="padding-left:10%;float:left;width: 100%"> This occupies 20% </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="ui-block-b" style="width:80%">
                        <div class="ui-bar ui-bar-b" style=" z-index: 10;position: absolute;width: 100%;padding-right: 10%">
                            This occupies 80%
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
            <div data-role="footer">
                <h4>Page Footer</h4>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

Comments

Cara said…
Thanks so much for this! You saved me from tearing my hair out!!
David Lucky said…
Dirty hacks.. I better use bootstrap
Mallory J said…
Awesome blog you have here

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