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In any case this is not where the JQM devs hang out .

However, removing it doesn't help.

Here is the updated Fiddle:

    http://jsfiddle.net/jju1bs03/1/

You should check your HTML with a syntax checker. But jsFiddle does it for you. Just look for the red tags! (It can be confusing, because it also colors attributes in dark red. Error tags are in a lighter red.)

http://jsfiddle.net/jju1bs03/2/

 You can search the Issues on GitHub to see what has been reported. It is worth learning a bit about using GitHub Issues. Most open-source projects use GitHub, and then if they tag things properly, it is easy to see a bug list for a particular version.

I use 1.4.5 in a project, and I seem to recall having this problem myself. 

I haven't touched the project in a while, but I just found this magical incantation:

I wonder if previous versions would apply the theme of the incoming page to the toolbars (or transition it?) when the toolbars are briefly moved out of the page during the transition?

It might be a bug. It might have been intentional. 

    $(document).on('pageinit', '.ui-page', function() ...

I think it can be pushed-back even to pagecreate.

The issue is that the default theme is inherit, however during the transition the toolbar moves outside the page and so has nothing to inherit from. To fix this simply add a data-theme to your toolbars:   data-theme="a" .

While external toolbars work well and are a nice solution for many use cases, they are not good for others. If you have changing buttons or other content in the toolbar on different pages or types of pages, now you have to manage that. It is much easier in that case to use persistent toolbars.

An intermediate solution between the two is, for example, you have different "sets" of pages each with a common toolbar. If it is a small number of sets, you might create multiple external toolbars, and enable only one at a time. I hesitate to mention this, though, because I can imagine how it will be abused, LOL. (The same way multi-page documents are abused...)