noted that the option should be set on mobileinit

Author: scottjehl

docs/forms/plugin-eventsmethods.html

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ <h2>Degraded Form Input Types</h2>
 		<p>jQuery Mobile degrades several HTML5 input types back to type=text, or type=number after adding enhanced controls. For example, inputs with a type of range are enhanced with a custom slider control, and their type is set to number to offer a usable form input alongside that slider. Inputs with a type of search are degraded back to type=text after we add our own themable search input styling.</p>
 		<p>The page plugin contains a list of input types that are set to either true which means they'll degrade to type=text, false which means they'll be left alone, or a string such as "number", which means they'll be converted to that type (such as the case of type=range).</p>
 
-		<p>You can configure which types are changed via the page plugin's <code>degradeInputs</code> option, which can be manipulated externally via <code>$.mobile.page.prototype.options.degradeInputs</code>, which has properties: color, date, datetime, "datetime-local", email, month, number, range, search, tel, time, url, and week.</p>				
+		<p>You can configure which types are changed via the page plugin's <code>degradeInputs</code> option, which can be manipulated externally via <code>$.mobile.page.prototype.options.degradeInputs</code>, which has properties: color, date, datetime, "datetime-local", email, month, number, range, search, tel, time, url, and week. Be sure to configure this inside an event handler bound to the <code>mobileinit</code> event, so that it applies to the first page as well as subsequent pages that are loaded.</p>				
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