Accordion widget - Toggling the Panel?

I know this is probably simple but...
1) How do I make the Accordion widget Panels "Open &
Close" by clicking on the same Panel twice?
What I mean is that my Accordion Panel works fine &
"Opens" when clicked once, but will not "Close" when clicked again?
(I want to be able to quickly open & close selected
panels at ease)
2) How do I apply a CSS to the Accordion without affecting
the original CSS style?
Earlier when went in to the Accodion.css file & started
making changes, it messed up the Accordion itself & I could not
get back to it's original look?
Thanks for the help,
jlig

Cristian, Thanks for the update.
In regards to using Accordions & Panels, it would really
help to see a video tutorial on the workshop site that shows how to
use ADDT Forms & Lists with SPRY widgets like the Collapsible
Panel. Many of us are a bit unclear on how to target links between
the two and general integration of the two.
For example:
- What is the sequence?
1. Create a Blank DW page
2. Add the SPRY Panel
3. then ADDT records/Forms?
Or
1. Create a Blank DW page
2. Add the ADDT records/Forms
3. Add the SPRY panels, etc?
Also, From an RIA point of view it seems like the purpose of
AJAX is to get rid of all the "screen/page changes". Can you help
us understand for example, the process of converting regular
dynamic forms (via ADDT or otherwise) that have many pages, to AJAX
enabled links that point to Panels, Tabs & Accordions instead?
Thanks for all your expertise,
jlig

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Cristian, Thanks for the update.
In regards to using Accordions & Panels, it would really
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Problem with Accordion Widget INSIDE Sliding Panel Widget

Hello,
perhaps I should not do this, but I nested an Accordion
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Hi John,
That is the expected behavior if the "Overlap items below" is unchecked. Please refer to the following link http://screencasteu.worldsecuresystems.com/aish/2013-08-21_1947.png. If you don't want the page to wiggle up and down, please check the box shown in the screenshot.
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Open an accordion widget in the closed state?

I have searched the forums but have yet to find a resolution
for this issue. I am using an accordion widget and would like for
all of my panels to appear closed when the page initially loads.
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This is directly from the Adobe documentation:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/accordion/AccordionSample.html#AllPanelsCl osed
However, one thing to keep in mind is that this is assuming
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opportunity to do so. The below is the to the official Spry
homepage. There you will find the update package which includes
some samples and an Extension. Install the extension and restart
DW. Then under the Sites menu you will see a new option to update
Spry. Run that script and your Spry will be updated. Also on that
homepage is a link to the official Spry forums:
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Hi jonunes!
I have an article for you that I believe will help you troubleshoot this issue with your iPhone:
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Have a Dreamweaver question about the Spry Accordion widget.
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Try
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet">
<style>
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display: block !important;
overflow: visible !important;
height: auto !important;
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</head>
<body>
<a href="#" class="openAll">open all</a> - <a href="#" class="closeAll">close all</a>
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I am using the panel containers to list links to additional pages based on subject groups.
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3)      User clicks URL link within different panel.
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Greetings Arnout,
Sorry for the late reply. (Side-tracked with other work.)
I have a "outside-the-firewall" review area almost complete if you still have time to look at my code.
After testing several browsers and 2 platforms I have found that my problem is likely not with your code at all, but with small modifications that I have had to do to it. For example, I will need to have 2 separate Accordion blocks on the page I am developing.
When I drop Dreamweaver generated Spry code into the page the <div class="Accordion" ID="Accordion1"> is created (which suits my future needs, the additional block will have <div class="Accordion" ID="Accordion2">. I noticed that your code uses <div class="Accordion" ID="sampleAccordion">.
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Accordion Widget Starting Closed

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andrewmcgibbon wrote:
> I have added the following code to just below the DIV
> close tag and it didn't appear to help:
>
> var acc1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion1", {
useFixedPanelHeights:
> false });
> </script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> var acc1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion1", {
defaultPanel: 0 });
> </script>
Your second JavaScript statement overwrites the first one.
The options
should be passed to the Accordion constructor in the same
statement like
this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var acc1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion1", {
defaultPanel: 0,
useFixedPanelHeights: false });
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David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

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The page is posted at http://ekagra.com/dev/
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Thanks for the quick reply. I'm using spry pre-release 1.6 in
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widget into my html it creates a css and js file to go with it. I
found that if I edit the js file to read
FixedPanelHeights = false;
that the panel will resize for the content. If left to the
default, true, the panel will have a scroll bar to the side for
overflow, which I don't like. Then with it set to false, I can
adjust all the rest thru the css file. Again, I'm a newbie when it
comes to this stuff so I'm proable doing something backwards, but
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Have a Dreamweaver question about the Spry Accordion widget.
I am designing a website for a real estate company. I will have different pages set up as a state page with a sub-level of cities within the page. I am using the accordion widget for the cities. As you know, you click on the panel tab and the next panel drops up or down closing/opening the previous panel.
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(This is a topic discussed in
another
thread, but I didn't want to hijack the thread with my own
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I want to start my Accordion widget in a closed state. I
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Hey Al,
Nice plug for your own application! Here is another one,
since I am one of your happy customers.
I used the Spry widgets in the new DW CS3 and spent a couple
of days trying to tweak things to get them to work the way I
wanted. After getting input from my brother (his site that I am
working on) he really wanted some more style than what I was coming
up with using the basic DW widget. I smacked my dollar on the
barrel head and tried out PVII Accordion instead.
I can't tell you how fast and easy it was to insert and
customize this plugin. Not to mention they had some nice little
themed styles, one of which (the cobalt blue) was a real close
match to the color scheme I originally was using! (PS - any chance
of getting more theme styles down the road for this plugin or
matching styles for the other ones???)
Changing the open or closed state of the panels - it was so
simple!!! I simply went into the modify option and chose the number
that corresponded to my different panels in the menu list. My buddy
used an expression about DW CS3 that fits nicely with using tools
like PVII Accordion Magic. You can use a screwdriver with some
precision and a lot of hand strength to build what you want but it
will take you alot of time...or you can plugin a power drill and be
done with it!
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I think you are onto the right track with the -1 setting. If
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PS - Just so everyone knows - I am not a sales person for
PVII - just a very satisfied customer!

Recieving accordion event from the "outside"

hi;
i am using the accordion and need to keep track of events,
specificaly, the only thing i need right now is to know the new
currentPanelIndex of the accordion after someone clicked a panel.
what is the best way to do this?
i already tried hacking the spry.js(hacked into the openPAnel
function), it worked but i do not want to touch the JS file (so i
dont have to do this on every upgrade). i
also tried doing it from the "outside" but i could not get
it to work (after creating the accordion, i took the panels from
the accordion, looped and got the tab from each panel and used
addEventListener(tab,'click',myfunc,false) but in the first
iteration after the call to addEventListener the loop did not
continue ).
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thanks,

You can extend it from the outside by defining a function
that overrides openPanel() with a function that calls the original
openPanel() and then executes whatever code you want. The function
would look something like this:
function ExtendOpenPanel(acc)
var realFunc = acc.openPanel;
acc.openPanel = function(panel) {
realFunc.call(acc, panel);
/* Add your code or function call here! */
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var acc1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("acc1");
ExtendOpenPanel(acc1);
--== Kin ==--

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Is this really the way it works? I would expect no audio until the user clicks one of the options, and then that audio would play. The way it is working for me makes no sense. Why have an audio icon for each content area (under each accordion option) if they don't play when the user opens that option?
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I read through the string about problems with audio and the accordion, but that issue was different from this.
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I just tried it in Windows with exactly the same behavior.
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Hi
How exactly you are trying to style the text or image ?
You can insert any object or widget in accordion , add image or draw a rectangle with different states defined. You can resize while placing the image etc.
If this is not you are looking for , then please elaborate as what specific changes you are looking for the object in accordion.
Composition and Accordion , both are different and works differently but you can use accordion itself and make the changes to text or image anything inserted in the container.
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