Currently, I am in the process of developing a web application using ASP.NET MVC4. My goal is to create specific views tailored for mobile browsers. To achieve this, I have been following a tutorial provided at this link. One of the steps involved installing the jQuery.Mobile.MVC package and adding a line to the Global.asax file as instructed. Upon completing the installation, a file named _Layout.Mobile.cshtml was generated, which appears as follows:
_Layout.Mobile.cshtml
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>@ViewBag.Title</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
@Styles.Render("~/Content/Mobile/css", "~/Content/jquerymobile/css")
@Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery", "~/bundles/jquerymobile")
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$.mobile.ajaxEnabled = false;
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div data-role="page" data-theme="a">
@Html.Partial("_ViewSwitcher")
<div data-role="header">
<h1>@ViewBag.Title</h1>
</div>
<div data-role="content">
@RenderSection("featured", false)
@RenderBody()
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
In addition to this layout file, I also incorporated a mobile view specifically for the index page.
Index.Mobile.cshtml
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Home";
}
<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true">
<li data-role="list-divider">Navigation</li>
<li>@Html.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "Home")</li>
<li>@Html.ActionLink("About", "About", "Home")</li>
<li>@Html.ActionLink("Contact", "Contact", "Home")</li>
</ul>
When I tried opening the webpage on an iPhone simulator, the appearance differed significantly from what was illustrated in the tutorial. Instead of the expected layout, all I saw was plain text displayed on a blank page. Examining the page source, I noticed that only the site.Mobile.css file had been loaded.
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Home</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<link href="/Content/Site.Mobile.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="/Scripts/jquery-2.0.3.js"></script>
<script src="/Scripts/jquery.mobile-1.3.1.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$.mobile.ajaxEnabled = false;
});
</script>
</head>
To investigate further, I decided to create a new web application project using the Mobile Application template within VS2012. Upon running this new project and examining the page source, I observed multiple css files being loaded.
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Log in</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<link href="/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" />
<link href="/Content/jquery.mobile-1.2.0.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="/Content/jquery.mobile.structure-1.2.0.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="/Content/jquery.mobile.theme-1.2.0.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="/Content/site.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="/Scripts/modernizr-2.6.2.js"></script>
</head>
All necessary files were present in my webApp project, yet certain files failed to load properly. This discrepancy has left me puzzled about where I might have gone wrong. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.