Dynamically adding <li/> to <ul/> in jquery mobile

Question

I'm trying to add list items to unordered lists in jquery mobile, but the formatting doesn't seem to be created properly.

<ul data-role="listview" data-theme="c" data-dividertheme="b">
                    <li data-role="list-divider">
                        Title Divider
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <a href="test.html" data-transition="slide">List item 1</a>
                    </li>

 </ul>

Script:

$('ul').append('<li><a>hello</a></li>');

For some reason the li generated dynamically doesn't display the same way as the one that's statically created. Does anyone know why and how I can make it the same?

Answer 1

Try this:

$('ul').append($('<li/>', {    //here appending `<li>`
    'data-role': "list-divider"
}).append($('<a/>', {    //here appending `<a>` into `<li>`
    'href': 'test.html',
    'data-transition': 'slide',
    'text': 'hello'
})));

$('ul').listview('refresh');