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Learning Highcharts 4

You're reading from  Learning Highcharts 4

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783287451
Pages 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joe Kuan Joe Kuan
Profile icon Joe Kuan

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Learning Highcharts 4
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Web Charts 2. Highcharts Configurations 3. Line, Area, and Scatter Charts 4. Bar and Column Charts 5. Pie Charts 6. Gauge, Polar, and Range Charts 7. Bubble, Box Plot, and Error Bar Charts 8. Waterfall, Funnel, Pyramid, and Heatmap Charts 9. 3D Charts 10. Highcharts APIs 11. Highcharts Events 12. Highcharts and jQuery Mobile 13. Highcharts and Ext JS 14. Server-side Highcharts 15. Highcharts Online Services and Plugins Index

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...
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