For users that wish to respect data-enhance=false parent elements during manual enhancement or custom plugin authoring jQuery Mobile provides the $.fn.jqmEnhanceable filter method.

Settings:

If, and only if, $.mobile.ignoreContentEnabled is set to true, this method will traverse the parent nodes for each DOM element in the jQuery object and where it finds a data-enhance=false parent the child will be removed from the set.

Warning:

The operation of traversing all parent elements can be expensive for even small jQuery object sets.