2 (Probably Simple) Accordion Widget Questions

Hello!
I am a video guy who tries to dive into this web design stuff
once in a long while. Usually i can figure most stuff out by
reading forums and stuff but this stuff if probably to obvious for
anyone but myself to post about...
1)When I click on the accordion spry widget on my site it is
surrounded by a selection box (i.e. a dotted line)
how do I get rid of this?
2) I am unclear of how to apply effects to widgets...I have
the SpryEffects.js file and would like to ease the animation of my
accordion but don't know how and where to link my main page's code
to the effect file. Where does the code for this go and in which
file?
Thanks,
Steven

Hi Steven,
That dotted outline is the browser's focus ring that tells
user an element on the page has keyboard focus. You can either use
CSS to change the color so it blends with your background, or if
you don't need keyboard navigation on your accordion, simply remove
the tabindex attribute on the accordion's top-level div.
For transitions, look here for an example:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/accordion/AccordionSample.html#SettingTheT ransition
--== Kin ==--

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A BIG THANKS IN ADVANCE!!
INDEX...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>The Yacht Club</title>
<link href="main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<script src="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><img src="images/logo.jpg" width="290" height="144" />
    
</div>
<div id="sidebar1">
    <h3>Welcome</h3>
    <ul id="nav"><li><a href="javascript:;">Home</a></li><li><a href="javascript:;">About Us</a></li><li><a href="javascript:;">Membership</a></li><li><a href="javascript:;">Our Boats</a></li><li><a href="javascript:;">Current Races</a></li><li><a href="javascript:;">Contact Us</a></li>
    </ul>
    <div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0">
      <div class="AccordionPanel">
        <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Atlantic Ocean</div>
        <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut, sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh. Donec nec libero.</div>
      </div>
<div class="AccordionPanel">
        <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Pacific Ocean</div>
        <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut, sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh. Donec nec libero.</div>
      </div>
      <div class="AccordionPanel">
        <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Indian Ocean</div>
        <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut, sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh. Donec nec libero.</div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <p> </p>
</div>
<div id="mainContent">
    <h1> Luxury Yachts</h1>
    <p><img src="images/sailboat.jpg" alt="Sailboat" width="136" height="310" class="fltrt" />Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio. Donec et ipsum et sapien vehicula nonummy. Suspendisse potenti. Fusce varius urna id quam. Sed neque mi, varius eget, tincidunt nec, suscipit id, libero. In eget purus. Vestibulum ut nisl. Donec eu mi sed turpis feugiat feugiat. Integer turpis arcu, pellentesque eget, cursus et, fermentum ut, sapien. Fusce metus mi, eleifend sollicitudin, molestie id, varius et, nibh. Donec nec libero.</p>
    <h2>Sail to the Bahamas </h2>
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent aliquam, justo convallis luctus rutrum, erat nulla fermentum diam, at nonummy quam ante ac quam. Maecenas urna purus, fermentum id, molestie in, commodo porttitor, felis. Nam blandit quam ut lacus. Quisque ornare risus quis ligula. Phasellus tristique purus a augue condimentum adipiscing. Aenean sagittis. Etiam leo pede, rhoncus venenatis, tristique in, vulputate at, odio.</p>
</div>
<br class="clearfloat" />
<div id="footer">
    <p>© 2009 Luxury Yachts – bring a cup for the bailout</p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
MAIN CSS...
@charset "UTF-8";
body {
margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
padding: 0;
text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
color: #000000;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
background-color: #FDFDFD;
background-image: url(images/body_BG.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
h1, h2, h3 {
font-weight: normal;
color: #00583F;
h1 {
font-size: 140%;
h2 {
font-size: 130%;
h3 {
font-size: 120%;
#container {
width: 780px;
margin: 0 auto;
text-align: left;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-top-style: none;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
background-image: url(images/container_bg.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
#header {
background-color: #DDDDDD;
background-image: url(images/headerBG.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-top: 0;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-left: 0px;
#sidebar1 {
float: left; /* since this element is floated, a width must be given */
width: 200px; /* the background color will be displayed for the length of the content in the column, but no further */
padding: 15px 10px 15px 20px;
ul#nav {
background-image: url(images/buoy.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left bottom;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 153px;
padding-left: 0px;
list-style-type: none;
#nav li a {
font-size: 90%;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #09553F;
display: block;
padding: 4px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-color: #3574A7;
#nav li a:hover, #nav li a:active, #nav li a:focus {
color: #123464;
background-color: #B7DAD8;
#mainContent {
margin: 0 0 0 250px; /* the left margin on this div element creates the column down the left side of the page - no matter how much content the sidebar1 div contains, the column space will remain. You can remove this margin if you want the #mainContent div's text to fill the #sidebar1 space when the content in #sidebar1 ends. */
padding: 0 20px; /* remember that padding is the space inside the div box and margin is the space outside the div box */
#mainContent p, #sidebar1 p, #footer p {
font-size: 85%;
line-height: 1.4;
#footer {
background-color: #00593D;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 270px;
#footer p {
margin: 0; /* zeroing the margins of the first element in the footer will avoid the possibility of margin collapse - a space between divs */
padding: 10px 0; /* padding on this element will create space, just as the the margin would have, without the margin collapse issue */
color: #FFF;
.fltrt { /* this class can be used to float an element right in your page. The floated element must precede the element it should be next to on the page. */
float: right;
margin-left: 8px;
.fltlft { /* this class can be used to float an element left in your page */
float: left;
margin-right: 8px;
.clearfloat { /* this class should be placed on a div or break element and should be the final element before the close of a container that should fully contain a float */
clear:both;
    height:0;
    font-size: 1px;
    line-height: 0px;
SPRY CSS...
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryAccordion.css - version 0.4 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6.1 */
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. */
/* This is the selector for the main Accordion container. For our default style,
* we draw borders on the left, right, and bottom. The top border of the Accordion
* will be rendered by the first AccordionPanelTab which never moves.
* If you want to constrain the width of the Accordion widget, set a width on
* the Accordion container. By default, our accordion expands horizontally to fill
* up available space.
* The name of the class ("Accordion") used in this selector is not necessary
* to make the widget function. You can use any class name you want to style the
* Accordion container.
.Accordion {
overflow: hidden;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-right-color: #7C9297;
border-bottom-color: #7C9297;
border-left-color: #7C9297;
/* This is the selector for the AccordionPanel container which houses the
* panel tab and a panel content area. It doesn't render visually, but we
* make sure that it has zero margin and padding.
* The name of the class ("AccordionPanel") used in this selector is not necessary
* to make the widget function. You can use any class name you want to style an
* accordion panel container.
.AccordionPanel {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
/* This is the selector for the AccordionPanelTab. This container houses
* the title for the panel. This is also the container that the user clicks
* on to open a specific panel.
* The name of the class ("AccordionPanelTab") used in this selector is not necessary
* to make the widget function. You can use any class name you want to style an
* accordion panel tab container.
* NOTE:
* This rule uses -moz-user-select and -khtml-user-select properties to prevent the
* user from selecting the text in the AccordionPanelTab. These are proprietary browser
* properties that only work in Mozilla based browsers (like FireFox) and KHTML based
* browsers (like Safari), so they will not pass W3C validation. If you want your documents to
* validate, and don't care if the user can select the text within an AccordionPanelTab,
* you can safely remove those properties without affecting the functionality of the widget.
.AccordionPanelTab {
background-color: #00583F;
margin: 0px;
padding: 2px;
cursor: pointer;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
color: #FFF;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-top-color: #7C9297;
border-bottom-color: #7C9297;
/* This is the selector for a Panel's Content area. It's important to note that
* you should never put any padding on the panel's content area if you plan to
* use the Accordions panel animations. Placing a non-zero padding on the content
* area can cause the accordion to abruptly grow in height while the panels animate.
* Anyone who styles an Accordion *MUST* specify a height on the Accordion Panel
* Content container.
* The name of the class ("AccordionPanelContent") used in this selector is not necessary
* to make the widget function. You can use any class name you want to style an
* accordion panel content container.
.AccordionPanelContent {
overflow: auto;
margin: 0px;
height: 200px;
padding-top: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-left: 5px;
/* This is an example of how to change the appearance of the panel tab that is
* currently open. The class "AccordionPanelOpen" is programatically added and removed
* from panels as the user clicks on the tabs within the Accordion.
.AccordionPanelOpen .AccordionPanelTab {
background-color: #FFF;
color: #005b3E;
/* This is an example of how to change the appearance of the panel tab as the
* mouse hovers over it. The class "AccordionPanelTabHover" is programatically added
* and removed from panel tab containers as the mouse enters and exits the tab container.
.AccordionPanelTabHover {
color: #AAC7CE;
.AccordionPanelOpen .AccordionPanelTabHover {
color: #555555;
/* This is an example of how to change the appearance of all the panel tabs when the
* Accordion has focus. The "AccordionFocused" class is programatically added and removed
* whenever the Accordion gains or loses keyboard focus.
.AccordionFocused .AccordionPanelTab {
background-color: #00583F;
color: #FFF;
/* This is an example of how to change the appearance of the panel tab that is
* currently open when the Accordion has focus.
.AccordionFocused .AccordionPanelOpen .AccordionPanelTab {
background-color: #FFF;
color: #00583F;
Apologies in advance if I'm asking a daft question!!

Hi,
using your source code, I couldn't find a really inserted "Spry Accordion". If I do that (translated from german DW) > Insert > Spry > Spry Accordion, I'll find in my DW source code something like that:
<div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0">
    <div class="AccordionPanel">
      <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Bezeichnung 1</div>
      <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Inhalt 1</div>
    </div>
    <div class="AccordionPanel">
      <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Bezeichnung 2</div>
      <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Inhalt 2</div>
    </div>
</div>
and in design view:
Please control your DW-entries.
Hans-G.

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
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enabled links that point to Panels, Tabs & Accordions instead?
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Spry Accordion Widget Init Closed, Without Snap?

(This is a topic discussed in
another
thread, but I didn't want to hijack the thread with my own
question, so I started a new one...)
I want to start my Accordion widget in a closed state. I
figured out the trick of setting the default panel to '-1' and
turning fixed heights by altering the code in the footer of the
page to:
var Accordion1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion1",
{defaultPanel: -1,
useFixedPanelHeights: false});
When you do this, however, the page loads with the first
accordion panel open and visible for a split second until the page
is loaded, at which point the widget snaps the panel shut. This is
very ugly and undesirable, especially given that this accordion is
on a page element common to every page on the site.
I've tried setting an initial class that is hidden, however
the Spry Accordion widget is written in such a way that it
preserves whatever classes you have rather than replacing them.
Does anyone know a way to load the page with the accordion
panels shut without this initial flash of the first panel snapping
shut?
Thanks,
Steve

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!
To see it in action on my current work in progress go to:
http://www.dvdflashbacks.com/williamsburghealth/index.php
As for sstringer's original question - how to do this in DW's
Spry widget...
I think you are onto the right track with the -1 setting. If
I am not mistaken though, Spry uses 0 for the first panel, so I
think you would need to use an option like {defaultTab: 1} to open
the 2nd panel and so on.
PS - Just so everyone knows - I am not a sales person for
PVII - just a very satisfied customer!

Can I place a (Rectangle Tool) container filled with an image in an (Accordion) widget and make it clickable?

Is it possible to use the Rectangle Tool to create a container, fill the container with a graphic image, place the container and image in an Accordion widget space and make the container clickable to open and close the Accordion?
I've done this but the container isn't clickable, only the other areas of the Accordion window are. Can this be done?

You can use the image as fill for label of accordion which will open the container on click.
If this does not answer your question then please provide me an example where I can see what exactly you are trying to achieve.
Thanks,
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SPRY accordion widget IE8 ONLY issue

hello everybody,
i noticed a strange "jumpy" behavior while using the spry accordion widget -- this affects IE8 only (currently using 8.0.6001.18882 on vista), other browsers (including IE7 and IE8 forced into IE7 mode) work as expected. this issue seems to be related to the margin property of the accordion container...
not shure whether this behavior is related to IE rendering or the spry javascript code itself... anyway i made NO changes to the spry script (my version is 0.15, 1.6.1, which i believe to be most recent one).
the xhtml (strict) and css are perfectly valid (there might be some MINOR css hacks which are not related to the accordion itself). i do NOT use ANY padding on the inner container of the accordion (which would definetely make the spry js count the tween in odd way). the accordions (especially the main menu on the left) are little more complex, but they were built according to the spry widget document, found on the adobe spry website.
so, here it is -- check the accordion on the left side (the bug seems to happen almost always while opening/closing the last BLUE "section" of the accordion, please play with the accordion for a while to reproduce it -- while the accordion closes, it "loses" it's bottom margin (i guess), what's even more wierd, everything gets back to place after you move a mouse):
http://www.prazskematky.cz/home.php
PLEASE NOTICE: since the website is still under development and i'm using a IE meta tag to force it into IE7 rendering, to reproduce this behavior please be shure to switch IE engine to IE8 standards mode
well, we all now how IE handles css... so it's propably an IE bug -- anyway if you have encountered a similar issue of even better found a fix, please let know. (i don't consider a fix switching to another js library, i would like to use the spry, because of it's DW integration)
many thanks,
p.s.

ross m. greenberg wrote:
> Now however the entire .gif is not appearing in the
accordion panel is expanded. I insert the graphic using a standard
"menu insert/graphic/browse and select"
>
> the graphic file is not showing up properly on such an
insert...
Are you referring to what it looks like in Design view? If
so, that's
correct. Accordion panels have a fixed height. From memory, I
think it's
200px. However, if you test the page in a browser, you should
see a
scrollbar automatically generated on panels that have content
that
exceeds the height of the panel.
If you want flexible-height panels in the accordion, you need
to adjust
both the CSS and the script that initializes the accordion. I
have
covered all the details in my "Essential Guide to Dreamweaver
CS3" (and
the forthcoming CS4 edition). You can probably find online
tutorials as
well. Try a Google search for Spry flexible height accordion.
The accordion widget has been around since CS3, and it hasn't
changed in
CS4, so a Google search should bring up a lot of information.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

Accordion widget

Hello!
I have a question, why not work accordion widgets and thumbnails when I upload it via FTP to my server?
Already contacted my hosting provider asking if they had the solution, I gave my directory permissions and widgets do not work.
another thing, when I open my page from any IOS images that has the project are moved around!
please help!
thanks!
Greetings!

I see not all the files are uploaded on the server that is why you are facing this issue. Please try to export the html to a different folder and then use an ftp client like filezilla to upload it and let me know how that goes.
- Abhishek Maurya

Accordion widget not pushing content down

I followed the instructions for putting the menu inside the accordion widget. It has worked great for me in the past. But now, the menu just shows up behind the content. I've looked at several discussions, and I have everything set up correctly. No scroll effects, etc. I followed the step-by-step instructions on Lynda.com and in an earlier version of Muse it was perfect. Now it isn't. Here is the business catalyst site URL. pitv.businesscatalyst.com. Appreciate your help.
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Hi,
Coud you please try the suggestion provided in the following thread
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I did offer you two work flows to have images on top of question slides. I don't think they'll change the design of question slides (following the basic SCORM defined types), has been the same since many, many versions. But you can now more easily create custom question slides than ever before with learning interactions, variables and shared actions. Your idea of 'basic functionality' is maybe not the same for the majority of users
You could log some feature requests, if you want to have impact on changes for the future. Personally I don't feel that the change to a learning interaction is such a basic functionality. Every application has its proper ways, and Captivate is certainly not an exception.

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Hello. I need the accordion widget to activate on mouse over instead of mouse click. Is this possible? If not, is this a feature that will be added in the future?

Thanks for the response Kin!
I am setting up the links like you suggested, placing the
link inside the AccordionPanelTab, however, the problem isn't
getting the link to intercept the clicks, it's getting the link to
perform their default action. In the SpryAccordion.js file, on line
223, the default action of the tab's contents is being disabled.
This means that, regardless of whether or not there is a link
inside the tab, it will still act only as a tab (unless I'm missing
something). The code looks like this:
if (e.preventDefault) e.preventDefault();
If one adds:
e.preventDefault = false;
before the code on line 223, the problem is solved. The
problem with that solution is, if I go in and add that line of
code, I have to remember that change and where it was for all
future updates of the Spry widgets. So my question is, is there a
way to disable preventDefault so that default actions of, in this
case, links are enabled? Can this be done without editing the
Accordion Widget's Javascript file?

Reliability of Spry Accordion Widget

I posed a question in this forum last week and was unable to
get a helpful answer to my problem. I am trying to use the Spry
Accordion Widget on a site:
http://www.jalc.org/JazzED/s_eac_B.html
I have researched here to learn how to get the panels to
start closed with one panel to be open by default. This works
exactly like expected in Firefox and Chrome but NOT in IE.
Am I wrong in my assumptions that:
1) Folks from Adobe monitor this board and chime in with
answers/solutions or acknowledgement of bugs; and
2) Spry widgets are a reliable cross-platform technology that
have had the bugs worked out
or, is the real case
1) Adobe folks only look into these forums on an occassional
basis, if at all; and
2) Spry widgets should be left alone if you are expecting
them to perform properly relative to cross-platform capabilities.
I appreciate anyone's feedback or suggestions on these
questions.
Thanks,
Andy

I just re-read my post above and am mortified at the tone of
my message. It was in no way intended to come off as pissy, which I
fear it might have. Anyone with any thoughts on my issue, I would
appreciate your feedback.
Regards,
Andy

Spry Accordion widget

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.
What I would like to do is add an action anchor (view all properties) outside the spry widget to open all the panels at once if a client wanted to see the entire list. However, I would still want the functionality of the panels to be collapsible. Is this possible? Is there a bit of code restructuring I would have to do to the JavaScript?

Try
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet">
<style>
.openit .AccordionPanelContent {
display: block !important;
overflow: visible !important;
height: auto !important;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#" class="openAll">open all</a> - <a href="#" class="closeAll">close all</a>
<div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0">
<div class="AccordionPanel">
    <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Label 1</div>
    <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 1</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanel">
    <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Label 2</div>
    <div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content 2</div>
</div>
</div>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js"></script>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryDomUtils.js"></script>
<script>
function MyOpenAllEventHandler() {
    Spry.$$("#Accordion1").addClassName("openit");
function MyCloseAllEventHandler() {
    Spry.$$("#Accordion1").removeClassName("openit");
Spry.$$(".openAll").addEventListener("click" , MyOpenAllEventHandler, false);
Spry.$$(".closeAll").addEventListener("click" , MyCloseAllEventHandler, false);
var Accordion1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion1");
</script>
</body>
</html>
The "!important" on these rules is necessary because the Accordion widget places inline styles on the actual AccordionPanelContent elements when opening and closing them. Since inline styles have a higher CSS specificity then CSS class rules, "!important" is necessary to "trump" the inline styles.
Gramps

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