jQuery Listbox load items

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Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way of pre-loading a Jquery list box with items (similar to .items property in design mode) through code rather than using (.additem) as it is very slow ( i am loading about 1000 items at once), any ideas?

Warm Regards,

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My first question is: 1000 items? It can’t be easy for the user to scroll through that many to find an item.

Second question: Which control do you actually mean?
jqWidgets Listbox or jQuery Mobile List?

and an idea: the reason it takes a long time is that it needs to refresh the control after each item is added. Is it faster if you hide the control while doing this?

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Hello and thanks for the reply.

The reason i am adding 1000 items is beacuse i’ve created a kind of a dictionary and i use the filter option to go through the list (which is very effiecient by the way).

I am using jQuery Mobile List.

I will definately try to hide the controller.

Warm Regards,

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Hello,

I’ve tried to hide the List while adding the items, same problem…

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You will need to dive into HTML to do this. If you have a jQM List control named List1, type List1.innerHTML into the Chrome Console. You’ll get something like this:

<ul id="List1_list" data-role="listview" class="ui-listview ui-listview-inset ui-shadow" data-corners="false" data-icon="arrow-r" data-inset="true" data-divider-theme="b" nsb-imagestyle="none">
  <li class="ui-first-child"><a id="List1_0" nsbclick="List1" nsbvalue="0" href="#" style="white-space:normal;" class="ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-icon-arrow-r">One</a></li>
  <li><a id="List1_1" nsbclick="List1" nsbvalue="1" href="#" style="white-space:normal;" class="ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-icon-arrow-r">Two</a></li>
  <li class="ui-last-child"><a id="List1_2" nsbclick="List1" nsbvalue="2" href="#" style="white-space:normal;" class="ui-btn ui-btn-icon-right ui-icon-arrow-r">Three</a></li>
</ul>

You will need to construct a string with a similar format, with all 1000 items, then assign it to List1.innerHTML.

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Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

I thought about that but didn’t know how, is it possbile to modify this in runtime?
How can i access the html via code (basic)?

Warm Regards,

Abdalla

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Hello,

i am trying to, how do i overcome the " character?

can You please show me an example?

Thanks

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You can use a single quote in place of the double quote.

List1.innerHTML = myNewHTML