Building a dynamic content dialog with the point click event

Now we know which sports have achieved gold medals in the Olympics, but we want to further find out who the medalists are. Let's touch the Athletics bar in the chart. A dialog box appears and presents a list of athletes in thumbnails along with their names, photos, and their event information, as shown in the following screenshot:

Notice that the dialog box shown in the preceding screenshot is not a static HTML page. This is constructed via a point click event and builds the dialog box content dynamically from the result. The problem is that, in order to launch a dialog page in jQM, we need to have a button somewhere on the page to start from. The trick is to create a jQM hidden button and a program to invoke the click action from inside the event handler. The following code is the HTML (sport.html) for both the hidden button and dialog page:

<!-- hidden dialog -->
<a id='hiddenDialog' href="#atheletes_dialog" 
   data-rel...