How to remove jQuery Mobile styling?

Solution 1:

Methods of markup enhancement prevention:

This can be done in few ways, sometimes you will need to combine them to achieve a desired result.

• Method 1:

  It can do it by adding this attribute:

  data-enhance="false"
  

  to the header, content, footer container.

  This also needs to be turned in the app loading phase:

  $(document).on("mobileinit", function () {
      $.mobile.ignoreContentEnabled=true;
  });
  

  Initialize it before jquery-mobile.js is initialized (look at the example below).

  More about this can be found here:

  http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/pages/page-scripting.html

  Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Gajotres/UZwpj/

  To recreate a page again use this:

  $('#index').live('pagebeforeshow', function (event) {
      $.mobile.ignoreContentEnabled = false;
      $(this).attr('data-enhance','true');
      $(this).trigger("pagecreate")
  });
  

• Method 2:

  Second option is to do it manually with this line:

  data-role="none"
  

  Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Gajotres/LqDke/

• Method 3:

  Certain HTML elements can be prevented from markup enhancement:

   $(document).bind('mobileinit',function(){
        $.mobile.keepNative = "select,input"; /* jQuery Mobile 1.4 and higher */
        //$.mobile.page.prototype.options.keepNative = "select, input"; /* jQuery Mobile 1.4 and lower */
   });    
  

  Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Gajotres/gAGtS/

  Again initialize it before jquery-mobile.js is initialized (look at the example below).

Read more about it in my other tutorial: jQuery Mobile: Markup Enhancement of dynamically added content

Solution 2:

...or just use the official, theme-less version of the CSS built specifically to allow the design of a custom theme while maintaining all of jQuery Mobile functionality.

You don't have to fight with hacks and overrides all the time and you get a lighter CSS.

Win-win.

edit: Also answered here