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I'm not sure I even understand what the point is of structuring your HTML like this and then modifying the jQuery Mobile CSS to try to accommodate it.  Even if you're doing additional styling you should still be able to achieve the same effect without the use of a bunch of nested DIVs like this.  It's not all that surprising to me that the jQuery Mobile team wouldn't be aware of the need to support a case like this.

Regardless, I wouldn't recommend modifying the original jQM structure CSS file.  If you really need to do this, then you should be defining it in your own CSS extensions after including the jQuery Mobile CSS file.  Otherwise, you'll have to manually modify the jQuery Mobile resources every time you do an upgrade.  There should be no reason to modify the original jQuery Mobile resources in this case unless you want the extra headache of trying to manage this custom change on releases in the future.

this can be fixed by editing structure.css (line 1113 of non-minified file)

Well, maybe you were trying to point to the source issue but that's not how the response read.  This reads like the solution is to modify the original jQuery Mobile source when that really isn't the best solution.

There are a lot of people on the forum that would read that and automatically jump to directly modifying the jQuery Mobile source itself which isn't a maintainable solution.  I'm not sure everyone would get the appropriate message of what might have been meant versus what was stated.