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If your server response is enclosed in a data-role="page" element, your form would probably work fine with ajax turned on. With that said, your self-submitting form has to be written such that your server response on submit returns just the following ( and nothing else - not even js & css includes in the header ... no header )

<div data-role="page" id="server-response">

      <!-- Server response

      ------->

</div>

I don't see why I must exclude all but the data-role="page" element when submitting to self?

It seems to me this is handled by JQM itself, the example on the JQM demosite returns full page html:
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.2.0/docs/forms/forms-sample-selfsubmit.php
And, I don't see anything regarding this in the documentation.
I will try this later today anyway, since it seems like it helped others.

Just for the record, I am NOT arguing with the fact that this might work, I am just curious why this is not documented, nor implemented like this on the demosite. If you have any info to enlighten me, that is much appreciated! :)