jQuery mobile show and hide don't seem to work on iPhone - iphone

Question

I'm trying to use jQuery show and hide which seem to work ok in Safari, when I try it on the iPhone, it doesn't work at all. Here is my code;
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#showSearch").click(function () {
$("#searchform").show(1000);
});
</script>
It's a button that when clicked, will show the search form. The form doesn't show on iPhone. Also when I add $('#showSearch').remove(); in there, it doesn't get removed, even if I add a function as the second parameter of show() it still doesn't hide the button.
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

jQuery Docs:
http://api.jquery.com/show/ (Shows)
http://api.jquery.com/hide/ (Hides)
http://api.jquery.com/remove/ (Deletes)
http://api.jquery.com/toggle/ (Show/Hide)
Live Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/qQnsj/1/
JS
$('#viewMeButton').click(function() {
$('#viewMe').toggle(); // used toggle instead of .show() or .hide()
});
$('#removeMeButton').click(function() {
$('#removeMe').remove();
});
HTML
<div data-role="page" id="home">
<div data-role="content">
<div id="viewMe">
Hello I'm in the div tag, can you see me?
</div>
<br />
<button id="viewMeButton">Show / Hide</button>
<br />
<div id="removeMe">
Click the button to remove me
</div>
<br />
<button id="removeMeButton">Remove Me</button>
</div>
</div>

Answer 2

I know this is an old question, but I recently had a similar problem. Hopefully this will help someone else if they find this question, too.
I was trying to hide a set of ui-block-* elements in a JQM grid. On the same grid cells, my media query for the iPhone was setting display: block !important. That was winning.
The !important directive was unnecessary in my case and when I removed it the calls to hide() and show() began working as expected.