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Real answer? JQM isn't very suitable for the kind of use you have in mind. If you just need one or two features, you are better off looking for some jQuery plugins that are similar to the parts you want to use.

All you did was disable creation of widgets. The shadows are in the CSS. You override it like you override any CSS - you need to work-out proper selectors, and you need to load your CSS last to override. It is complex CSS.

There is a download builder that will give you a custom version minus features you don't need. But it's more a slimming-down tool than anything else.

And, as has been proven several times on this forum (by newbies who forget to include it) if you don't load the stylesheet, the page will be completely unstyled. As well, JQM can't possibly work correctly without it. (For example, page transitions won't work.)

You are on your own with this, as I'ver never heard of anybody using JQM without it's stylesheet. If you get it to do something useful, write a blog about it! You will be the expert! ;)

What part of JQM is it that you DO want to use?

I cannot overwrite the shadows even when I load my css last

If you load yours last, then what do you load first? You just said above that you don't load the JQM stylesheet.

The styles are written in three parts. The standard CSS includes all 3 parts. They have to be loaded in the right order. If you use your own theme, you have to use the separate files. (Or, you can combine the parts yourself.)

theme - defines colors and some dimensions

icon - CSS associated with icons

structure - CSS regarding the "structure" of the page. Really, most dimensional aspects.

It's not a good idea to modify the CSS, because then you have to change it again with every new version If The ThemeRoller lets you change most of the common things that developers want to change. If you can't accomplish what you want with the ThemeRoller, write overrides and load them last, after structure.

It think perhaps we are saying the same thing, but the translation comes out opposite. ;)

I was trying to set up a jquery widget but it included styling itself.

Widget's don't include styles themselves. Most *require* styles. If the styles are missing, many widgets won't work right, let alone look right.