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How to design datalists for mobiles using jQuery EasyUI Mobile ?

EasyUI is an HTML5 framework for using user interface components based on jQuery, React, Angular and Vue technologies. It helps in building features for interactive web and mobile applications saving a lot of time for developers.

In this article, we will learn to design datalists for mobile interface. Datalists are dropdown lists with pre-defined input options.



Downloads for EasyUI for jQuery:

https://www.jeasyui.com/download/index.php

Please take care of proper file paths while implementing your mobile application codes.



Example 1: The following code demonstrates the simple datalist using jQuery EasyUI.




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0,
      maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
 
    <!-- EasyUI specific stylesheets-->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/metro/easyui.css">
 
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/mobile.css">
 
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/icon.css">
 
    <!--jQuery library -->
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.min.js">
    </script>
 
    <!--jQuery libraries of EasyUI and
        EasyUI Mobile -->
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.easyui.min.js">
    </script>
 
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.easyui.mobile.js">
    </script>
</head>
 
<body>
    <div class="easyui-navpanel">
        <header>
 
            <!--EasyUI m-toolbar class is used  -->
            <div class="m-toolbar">
                <span class="m-title">
                    Basic DataList
                </span>
            </div>
        </header>
        <!--EasyUI easyui-datalist class is used -->
        <ul class="easyui-datalist" data-options="
                    fit: true,
                    lines: true,
                    border: false
                    ">
            <li>BMW</li>
            <li>Mercedes</li>
            <li>Bentley</li>
            <li><a href="javascript:void(0)"
                class="datalist-link">
                Audi
            </a></li>
 
            <li><a href="javascript:void(0)"
                class="datalist-link">
                    Volkswagen
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>Tesla</li>
            <li>Brio</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</body>
 
</html>

 

 

Output: 
 

 

 

 

 

Example 2: The following code demonstrates grouped datalist using jQuery EasyUI. On click of each item of the datalist, it displays the respective item content with a “Back” link.

 

 

 




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0,
      maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
 
    <!-- EasyUI specific stylesheets-->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/metro/easyui.css">
 
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/mobile.css">
 
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/icon.css">
 
    <!--jQuery library -->
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.min.js">
    </script>
 
    <!--jQuery libraries of EasyUI  -->
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.easyui.min.js">
    </script>
 
    <!--jQuery library EasyUI Mobile -->
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.easyui.mobile.js">
    </script>
</head>
 
<body>
    <div class="easyui-navpanel">
        <header>
            <div class="m-toolbar">
                <span class="m-title">
                    DataList group
                </span>
            </div>
        </header>
        <div id="datalistID" data-options="
                fit: true,
                border: false,
                lines: true">
        </div>
    </div>
 
    <div id="divID" class="easyui-navpanel">
        <header>
            <!--EasyUI 'm-toolbar' class is used-->
            <div class="m-toolbar">
                <span id="divID-title" class="m-title">
                    Car Details
                </span>
                <!--EasyUI 'easyui-linkbutton' class
                        is used for link and
                     'm-back' class is used for backtrack -->
                <div class="m-left">
                    <a href="javascript:void(0)"
                        class="easyui-linkbutton m-back"
                        plain="true" outline="true"
                        onclick="$.mobile.back()">
                        Back
                    </a>
                </div>
            </div>
        </header>
    </div>
    <script>
        // The listitems can be grouped
        var data = [
            { "group": "Group1", "item": "Audi" },
            { "group": "Group1", "item": "Mercedes" },
            { "group": "Group2", "item": "Bentley" },
            { "group": "Group2", "item": "BMW" },
            { "group": "Group3", "item": "Sedan" },
            { "group": "Group3", "item": "SUV" }
        ];
 
        // jQuery function for datalist
        $(function () {
            $('#datalistID').datalist({
                data: data,
                textField: 'item',
                groupField: 'group',
                textFormatter: function (value) {
                    return
'<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="datalist-link">'
                        + value + '</a>';
                },
 
                /* On click of one row,it takes to the
                   #divID-title with respective item */
                onClickRow: function (index, row) {
                    $('#divID-title').html(row.item);
                    $.mobile.go('#divID');
                }
            })
        })
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>

 

 

Output: 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example 3: The following example demonstrates checkbox for datalist.

 

 

 




<!doctype html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0,
      maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
 
    <!-- EasyUI specific stylesheets-->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/metro/easyui.css">
 
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/mobile.css">
     
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
        href="themes/icon.css">
     
    <!--jQuery library -->
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.min.js">
    </script>
     
    <!--jQuery libraries of EasyUI  -->
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.easyui.min.js">
    </script>
     
    <!--jQuery library EasyUI Mobile -->
    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="jquery.easyui.mobile.js">
    </script>
</head>
 
<body>
    <div class="easyui-navpanel">
        <header>
            <div class="m-toolbar">
                <span class="m-title">
                    DataList selection
                </span>
            </div>
        </header>
        <div id="datalistID" data-options="
                fit: true,
                border: false,
                lines: true,
                checkbox: true,
                singleSelect: false
                ">
        </div>
    </div>
 
    <script>
       // The listitems can be grouped
        var data = [
            { "group": "Group1", "item": "Audi" },
            { "group": "Group1", "item": "Mercedes" },
            { "group": "Group2", "item": "Bentley" },
            { "group": "Group2", "item": "BMW" },
            { "group": "Group3", "item": "Sedan" },
            { "group": "Group3", "item": "SUV" }
        ];
 
        // jQuery function for datalist
            $(function () {
                $('#datalistID').datalist({
                    data: data,
                    textField: 'item',
                    groupField: 'group'
                })
            })
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>

 

 

Output: 
 

 

 

 

 


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