jquery mobile not passing event down correctly

Question

I seem to have a weird problem with intelxdk and jquery mobile.

If I select an element, the scrolling works fine. If nothing is selected, then the touch event is registered properly. This is best explained through the attached two images.

How do I get it to focus properly? .focus() doesn't work.

Please see the attached to pictures for clarity.

Here the scrolling doesn't work.

Here the scrolling works.

It's almost as if the event is not propogated down all the way.

Edit As requested by Tasos, here's the first picture with the relevant div's expanded.