Accordion widget - put a button to go to next panel

Hi,
There is any way to put a button that, if some form's
requestes are respected, go to next panel?
I understood this make the next panel appear
Spry.Widget.Accordion.prototype.openNextPanel = function()
return this.openPanel(this.getCurrentPanelIndex() + 1);
but some ting like that (put in the page) doesn't work
if( validation == true){
function nextPanel()
return this.openPanel(this.getCurrentPanelIndex() + 1);
I need also to disable the function making go to next panel
on clicking the "label" (So the button will be the only way to
change panel)

No one knows?

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I take it you committing on the Zen Touch then?

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This is directly from the Adobe documentation:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/accordion/AccordionSample.html#AllPanelsCl osed
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That seems like a typographical omission on Lynda.com's blog.
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Hi, I've just finished this tutorial (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/table_to_css_pt2.html) but have a problem with my Spry Accordion Widget, when I preview the site my footer moves when I select a different panels in the widget, I've read back and checked code/css but I still can't sus it out (Don't laugh if it's something obvious!) Please can anyone help me? I've copied code/CSS below.
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.

Firefox Spry Accordion widget

Firefox Spry Accordion widget
Hello, I am trying to use Spry Accordion widget. When I click one of the other panels they all turn a strange neon blue color. Anyone know of any fixes?
The below is the index page and below that is SpryAccordion.css
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>Conferences</title>
<script src="SpryCollapsiblePanel.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryCollapsiblePanel.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
</style>
<link href="../SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="outside">
<div id="outsideone">
<div id="CollapsiblePanel1" class="CollapsiblePanel">
<div class="CollapsiblePanelTab" tabindex="0">Tab</div>
<div class="CollapsiblePanelContent">
<p>Content ssss</p>
<p>lkajsdfl</p>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var CollapsiblePanel1 = new Spry.Widget.CollapsiblePanel("CollapsiblePanel1");
</script>

<div id="photo"></div>
<div id="contentholder">
<div id="contentsone"> <div id="moreone">
<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>
</div> <div id="insidecontentsone"></div></div>
<div id="lineone"> </div>
<div id="contentstwo"> <div id="moretwo">
<div id="Accordion2" 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>
</div>
<div id="insidecontentstwo"></div></div>
<div id="linetwo"> </div>
<div id="contentsthree"> <div id="morethree">
<div id="Accordion3" 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>
</div><div id="insidecontentsthree"></div></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var Accordion1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion1", { defaultPanel: 1 });
var Accordion2 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion2", { defaultPanel: 1 });
var Accordion3 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion3", { defaultPanel: 1 });
</script>
</body>
</html>
SpryAccordion.css
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryAccordion.css - version 0.5 - 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-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-style: none;
border-bottom-style: none;
border-left-style: none;
border-right-color: none;
border-bottom-color: none;
border-left-color: none;
background-image: url(white.png);
background-color: none;
border-top-style: none;
/* 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;
background-image: url(white.png);
/* 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: #CCCCCC;
border-top: solid 1px black;
border-bottom: solid 0px gray;
margin: 0px;
padding: 2px;
cursor: pointer;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
background-image: url(white.png);
/* 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;
padding: 0px;
height: 200px;
background-image: url(white.png);
/* 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: #none;
background-image: url(white.png);
/* 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: #555555;
background-image: url(white.png);
.AccordionPanelOpen .AccordionPanelTabHover {
color: none;
background-image: url(white.png);
/* 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: none;
background-image: url(white.png);
/* 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: none;
height: 15px;
background-image: url(white.png);
/* Rules for Printing */
@media print {
.Accordion {
overflow: visible !important;
background-image: url(white.png);
.AccordionPanelContent {
display: block !important;
overflow: visible !important;
height: auto !important;
background-image: url(white.png);

Welcome to the Forum!
If you can upload your page to a server and give us a link, we will be able to look at your page in action. Just seeing the code is not enough.
Is this the first time you have used an Accordion? It is probable that the bright neon blue you are seeing is the default style, which you can change in the CSS file. I believe it was designed that color to highlight the feature you want to change .
Take a look in the Accordion's CSS file (it will show as an associated file at the top of your document window) for color rules, and adjust them to suit your palette (and your palate!). Check out the CSS Styles Panel (use Current mode) for a handy way to know what you are looking at. Click on the Accordion in Design View and the rules will be highlighted in the CSS Styles Panel. (Click the right-hand stair-step icon to see the style cascade.)
Beth

Spry Accordion Widget problems - please help

I've been trying to modify the settings for an accordion
widget - basically to open the widget with no panels open, and to
have varying panel heights. I have been to the help and the lab
forums and have put in the code, but alas, nothing worked. So I
downloaded the 1.5 prerelease just to see - and saw there was an
example of exactly what I wanted to do! (AccordionSample.html)
however when I went to preview this in DW CS3, it did not work ...
it did the same thing that mine was doing - opening all the panels,
and none were clickable. Is this something you cannot test locally?
Does it have to be on a test server? I am running this on a G5 with
10.4.9, if that helps at all.
Hmmm - uploaded it to my web server and still get the same
thing ... here's the
link:

Hi!
The version of the spry files on your server are 1.3, not 1.5
- hence using the options from 1.5 with the 1.3 files won't work
(they don't understand the options).
You need to a) update the spry files in DW CS3 to 1.5 so that
they will work with DW, and b) update the spry files on the
webserver to 1.5, as DW will not overwrite them itself incase you
changed something in them.
See:
here
for details

Spry Accordion Widget Behavior

I am using Dreamweaver CS3 and several Spry components. I am new to using Spry, but like how easy it is to impliment. One of the components I am trying to use is the Accordion Widget. The widget appears to function well (I am using variable panel heights) and the behavior appears as designed.
I am using the panel containers to list links to additional pages based on subject groups.
My question involves moving back and forth from the widget page to a listed pages, then back to the widget page.
The behavior I see is:
1)      User loads widget page, widget panel 1 is expanded onload.
2)      User expands different panel.
3)      User clicks URL link within different panel.
4)      User moves to new page (referenced URL page).
5)      User reviews content, decides it is not appropriate and wants to select another URL.
6)      User clicks the browser “back” button and returns to the widget page.
7)      Widget page onload returns to expanded panel 1.
Is there a way for me to tweak the JavaScript so that the user returns to the expanded panel they left rather that panel 1? Is panel 1 always going to be the panel that opens on page load? (Unless I have the settings set to no expanded panes on page load.)
Thanke you for any suggestions.
TPK

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">.
If I go through the cookie code and change all references of "sampleAccordion" to "Accordion1" the code breaks. I am missing something and haven't been able to find it.
Additionally, I noticed something odd when testing the widget. When testing using a Mac (Safari and Firefox) it appeared I didn't need the cookie code at all. The unmodified Dreamweaver Spry code appeared to hold the value of the launch panel when I moved from my launch page, to my receiver page, then back to my launch page.
This wasn't the case with Windows IE and Firefox. IE 6 appears broken onLoad, IE 8 and Firefox breaks when I go back to the launch page from the receiver page. Very odd behaviors. Tonight I will load your original code on a test page and add testing notes so that I have a "control".
The URL for the (several) test pages is: http://tim.kern.home.comcast.net/~tim.kern/
If you have any suggestions (for modifying the cookie code to work with more than one widget on a page) I would certainly appreciat them.
Thank you very much for the original code.
TPK

Id like to be able to place an anchor inside the accordion widget that opens the accordion to that anchor .

i have created a page with a very long accordion widget over 70 entries! its a staff list and the accordion rivals each persons bio. but what I need is when some clicks on a link person name on another page I want it to go to that accordion tab and open the accordion to rival the bio

Hi Jryan !
If you wire a 2D array to the input of a "replace element" function, you will see that the function expand to display an additionnal index. The one you are looking for !!
Chilly Charly (aka CC)
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