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## Question:

# Why isn't DOM ready working for my scripts?

## Answer:

One of the first things people learn in jQuery is to use the `$(document).ready()` function for executing DOM-specific code as soon as the DOM is ready (which often occurs long before the `onload` event). However, in jQuery Mobile site and apps, pages are requested and injected into the same DOM as the user navigates, so the DOM ready event is not as useful, as it only executes for the first page. To execute code whenever a new page is loaded and created in jQuery Mobile, you can bind to the `pagecreate` event.

The `pagecreate` event is triggered on a page when it is initialized, right after initialization occurs. Most of jQuery Mobile's official widgets auto-initialize themselves based on this event, and you can set up your code to do the same.

    $( document ).delegate("#aboutPage", "pagecreate", function() {
      alert('A page with an id of "aboutPage" was just created by jQuery Mobile!');
    });

If you'd like to manipulate a page's contents before the `pagecreate` event fires and widgets are auto-initialized, you can instead bind to the `pagebeforecreate` event:

    $( document ).delegate("#aboutPage", "pagebeforecreate", function() {
      alert('A page with an id of "aboutPage" is about to be created by jQuery Mobile!');
    });

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- ### Checkboxradio widget

  - Checkboxes
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- ### Collapsible (set) widget

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- ### Controlgroup widget

  - Controlgroup
  - Dynamic controlgroups
- Datepicker

- ### Events

  - Swipe list items
  - Swipe page navigation
- Filterable widget
- Flipswitch widget

- ### Forms

  - Forms
  - Hide labels
  - Field containers
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  - Forms gallery

- ### Grids

  - Grids
  - Buttons in grids
  - Custom responsive grids
- Grouping and dividing content

- ### Icons

  - Icons
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- ### Listview widget

  - Listview
  - Listview autocomplete
  - Listview autocomplete remote data
  - Listview autodividers linkbar
  - Listview autodividers selector
  - Listview Nested Listviews
  - Listview collapsible list items (flat)
  - Listview collapsible list items (indented)
  - Listview responsive grid
- Loader widget
- Navbar widget

- ### Navigation

  - Navigation
  - Linking pages
  - PHP redirect demo
  - Hash processing demo

- ### Pages

  - Pages
  - Single page
  - Multi-page template
  - Dialog page

- ### Panel widget

  - Panel
  - External panels
  - Fixed panels
  - Panels responsive
  - Custom panel style
  - Panel open on swipe
  - Panel external and internal

- ### Popup widget

  - Popup
  - Popup alignment
  - Popup arrow size
  - Dynamic popups
  - Popups with iframes
  - Popup image scaling
  - Popup outside multi-page
- Rangeslider widget
- Responsive Web Design

- ### Selectmenu widget

  - Selectmenu
  - Custom select menu
  - Custom select menu with filter

- ### Slider widget

  - Slider
  - Slider flip toggle switch
  - Slider tooltip

- ### Table widget

  - Table Column Toggle
  - Table Column Toggle demo
  - Table Column Toggle heading groups
  - Table Column Toggle options
  - Table Reflow
  - Table Reflow heading groups
  - Table Reflow stripes and strokes
  - Table Reflow custom styles
- Tabs widget
- Textinput widget

- ### Theming

  - Default theme
  - Classic theme

- ### Toolbar widget

  - Toolbar
  - Dynamic toolbars
  - External toolbars
  - Fixed toolbars
  - Fullscreen toolbars
  - Fixed external toolbars
  - Persistent toolbars
  - Ajax optimized toolbars
  - Form in toolbar
- Transitions

- ### 3rd party API demos

  - Backbone RequireJS
  - Google Maps geolocation
  - Google Maps list toggle

- Home
- Introduction
- Buttons
- Button widget

- ### Checkboxradio widget

  - Checkboxes
  - Radio buttons

- ### Collapsible (set) widget

  - Collapsible
  - Dynamic collapsibles
  - Collapsible set

- ### Controlgroup widget

  - Controlgroup
  - Dynamic controlgroups
- Datepicker

- ### Events

  - Swipe list items
  - Swipe page navigation
- Filterable widget
- Flipswitch widget

- ### Forms

  - Forms
  - Hide labels
  - Field containers
  - Forms disabled
  - Forms gallery

- ### Grids

  - Grids
  - Buttons in grids
  - Custom responsive grids
- Grouping and dividing content

- ### Icons

  - Icons
  - Grunticon loader

- ### Listview widget

  - Listview
  - Listview autocomplete
  - Listview autocomplete remote data
  - Listview autodividers linkbar
  - Listview autodividers selector
  - Listview Nested Listviews
  - Listview collapsible list items (flat)
  - Listview collapsible list items (indented)
  - Listview responsive grid
- Loader widget
- Navbar widget

- ### Navigation

  - Navigation
  - Linking pages
  - PHP redirect demo
  - Hash processing demo

- ### Pages

  - Pages
  - Single page
  - Multi-page template
  - Dialog page

- ### Panel widget

  - Panel
  - External panels
  - Fixed panels
  - Panels responsive
  - Custom panel style
  - Panel open on swipe
  - Panel external and internal

- ### Popup widget

  - Popup
  - Popup alignment
  - Popup arrow size
  - Dynamic popups
  - Popups with iframes
  - Popup image scaling
  - Popup outside multi-page
- Rangeslider widget
- Responsive Web Design

- ### Selectmenu widget

  - Selectmenu
  - Custom select menu
  - Custom select menu with filter

- ### Slider widget

  - Slider
  - Slider flip toggle switch
  - Slider tooltip

- ### Table widget

  - Table Column Toggle
  - Table Column Toggle demo
  - Table Column Toggle heading groups
  - Table Column Toggle options
  - Table Reflow
  - Table Reflow heading groups
  - Table Reflow stripes and strokes
  - Table Reflow custom styles
- Tabs widget
- Textinput widget

- ### Theming

  - Default theme
  - Classic theme

- ### Toolbar widget

  - Toolbar
  - Dynamic toolbars
  - External toolbars
  - Fixed toolbars
  - Fullscreen toolbars
  - Fixed external toolbars
  - Persistent toolbars
  - Ajax optimized toolbars
  - Form in toolbar
- Transitions

- ### 3rd party API demos

  - Backbone RequireJS
  - Google Maps geolocation
  - Google Maps list toggle