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Create an app for it and set the address bar to not display. There's no way for a webpage to tell the native browser on Android or iOS to hide the address bar, as that poses a potentially huge security risk (think phishing attempts...users often verify they're looking at the right site by checking the address bar).

Hey i found the solution... and it think the problem should be considered a bug.

I was wondering the same thing but haven't had the time to dig in and see what was causing it to happen.  Can you elaborate a little more on what you did to prevent it from happening?

What does your "onClick" event look like?  I'm assuming you're doing something like this:

1. $("#blah").click(function() {
2.          // I'd like to see your code for calling the page
3. });

Thank you for sharing - it's extremely helpful as I try to learn this.

What does the function preventDefault do?  Is that your own function?  I couldn't find reference to it on the jQuery Mobile or the regular jQuery site...

thanks again...

good fine.  i have noticed this too and was wondering why some pages didnt exhibit the behavior. 

This has long been an 'issue' with jQuerymobile and other frameworks that use hash change for navigation. Essentially, when you click an anchor tag on jquery mobile a series of events occur to enable ajax loading of pages as well as enabling Back button operation. If you attempt to use your own Button tag and create your own ajax linking system, you not only lose the ability to use the back button, but, very likely you aren't building in the ability to directly link to the 'page' that you are calling. (I.E., after a user clicks your button link they wont be able to either a. bookmark the page or b) copy the link and come back later because you didn't update the hash and stay within the jquery mobile framework.)

well, i use mobile.changePage("xxx") in my button click handler.  This seems to update the hash ok. 

by the way.. something i just discovered.