List of submits in jQuery Mobile menu - php

Question

I'm using a form with multiple submits to detect which button is clicked, but the list does not appear properly in a jQuery Mobile menu. I want it to appear nicely like in the JQM docs (click the "Menu" button), but it instead appears like in this picture. (In case it isn't obvious, the black boxes were me editing the names out.) What do I need to do to get it to collapse the submit buttons into a nice list like in the docs?
Navigate to different section
<div data-role="popup" id="navmenu">
<form name="navmenuform" action="X.php" method="post">
<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
<li data-role="divider">Navigate to:</li>
<?php foreach ($array as $category) { ?>
<li><input type="submit" name="nav<?php echo $category[0]; ?>" value="Section <?php echo $category[0] . ": " . $category[1]; ?>"></li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
</form>
</div>

Answer 1

The short answer is don't put submit buttons (at least visible) in listview items.
The problem is that buttons and lisview item's content area have their styling padding, margin, border, etc. Instead of fighting with styling you can just leverage what jQM gives you.
IMHO the simplest way to achieve what you want, if you can live with GET instead of POST, is to ditch the form and populate list items with anchors that href to appropriate urls with parameters and use rel="external" like this:
<div data-role="popup" id="navmenu" style="min-width:210px;">
<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
<li data-role="divider">Navigate to:</li>
<li><a rel="external" href="X.php?nav1=Section 1:1">Section 1:1</a></li>
<li><a rel="external" href="X.php?nav2=Section 1:2">Section 1:2</a></li>
<li><a rel="external" href="X.php?nav3=Section 1:3">Section 1:3</a></li>
<li><a rel="external" href="X.php?nav4=Section 1:4">Section 1:4</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
If you want to be able to POST your form you can utilize a hidden input and a bit of JS code.
Given that you'll produce the following markup:
<div data-role="popup" id="navmenu" style="min-width:210px;">
<form name="navmenuform" action="X.php" method="post" data-ajax="false">
<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
<li data-role="divider">Navigate to:</li>
<li>Section 1:1</li>
<li>Section 1:2</li>
<li>Section 1:3</li>
<li>Section 1:4</li>
</ul>
<input id="param" type="hidden" name="" value="">
</form>
</div>
Don't forget to put data-ajax="false" on your form tag, otherwise jQM by default will try to submit the form via ajax.
You then use click event on a list item, change name and value in your hidden input and submit the form:
$(document).on("pageinit", "#page1", function(){
$("#navmenu ul li a").click(function(e){
//Prevent default behavior since we need to submit the form instead of following the link
e.preventDefault();
//Change name and value attributes in out hidden input
$("#param").attr("name", $(this).attr("href")).val($(this).text());
//Submit the form
$("form[name=navmenuform]").submit();
});
});
Here is jsFiddle