So I'm trying to use this instead and it works fine until it slides into a new page, which is then treated like the splash screen again (e.g. it goes blank when the timer expires - in this case 4 seconds). How can I stop/restrict this behavior, so that changePage remains contained in splash page only?
Good idea here is what I'm thinking. Use single pages instead of multi page(multiple data-role=page). For index.html or index.php or whatever. Put your splash page. The reason for this I will explain later on.
index.html
<head>
<!-- First include all jquery stuff -->
<script src="app.js"></script><!-- external script because we can just include it in every page -->
</head>
<body>
<div data-role="page" id="splash">
<div class="splash">
<img src="startup.jpg" alt="startup image" />
</div>
</div>
</body>
app.js
$(document).on('pageinit','#splash',function(){ // the .on() method does require jQuery 1.7 + but this will allow you to have the contained code only run when the #splash page is initialized.
setTimeout(function(){
$.mobile.changePage("home.html", "fade");
}, 4000);
});
Ok so I did it this way because lets say you have navigation menu and you want to send people back to home page. You won't have to show the splash page again. You can just link to home.html. Also splitting up your pages helps keep the dom leaner. I hope this helps.
