In my earlier post here , I outlined the various page transitions that are available in jQuery Mobile. In single-page template documents, jQM uses Ajax to smoothly transition between pages and when not possible, the framework does a simple HTTP request to pull in the page. Situations where Ajax transitions are not used are: When a page loaded is: from an external domain data-ajax="false" attribute is used rel="external" is specified target attribute is specified This is also well documented (with examples) . In multi-page template documents, jQM needs Ajax to transition between the multiple page containers. Now lets play with this a bit. Let us try to override this with the data-ajax attribute and see what happens. Consider below code, you can click on the link below to launch it in a separate browser tab: Launch <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>jQuery Mobile Transitions Demo with data-ajax="false...