You can disable the ‘highlighted blue’-state in the ‘mobileinit’-event before loading jQueryMobile-script:
<head>
<script>
$(document).bind('mobileinit', function () {
$.mobile.activeBtnClass="unused";
});
</script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.1.0/jquery.mobile-1.1.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
Now, when you click on a link, no class will be added after the click is performed. You will still have the ‘hoover’ and ‘down’ classes.