Unable to call click Event When Not A Single Page

Unable to call click Event When Not A Single Page

I have a question, I was hoping someone can answer for me and help me understand. I've been working with JQuery and JQuery mobile for about a week now and through some testing I noticed that when I build my JQuery click event it doesn't work unless my mobile pages are sharing the same html file. I've also noticed that if my index.html file has the JQuery references then I don't have to include them in my second html page; it seems to work just fine. However, when I test this behavior in a desktop browser of course the references have to be in the appropriate pages. Any explanation of this would be greatly appreciative. I'm seeing this functionality in the Windows Phone and Android platform browsers using Cordova (a.k.a PhoneGap).