How to force refresh

Add this in the markup

<div data-role="collapsibleset" data-ajax="false">

It will refresh the content. Note data-ajax = false

How not to blank out background when JQuery Mobile dialog loads

Good read:

https://a.kabachnik.info/jquery-mobile-transparent-background-for-dialogs.html

Sadly, it doesn't work.

How to close a JQuery Mobile Dialog

How would you close this JQuery Mobile dialog:

Easy, just add this attribute:

data-rel="back"

to the anchor markup.

You can read it here:

http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.4.5/pages-dialog/