Spry Accordion always active

When the Accordion is not focused, it is gray.
How to disactivate this function?
I want that it is always active.
it forgives me, my English is not good.

Hi Gilson,
I'm assuming that by "active" you mean that you just want
your accordions to always be blue? The way it works is that when
the Accordion gets keyboard focus, it triggers these rules in the
SpryAccordion.css file:
/* 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: #3399FF;
/* 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: #33CCFF;
All you need to do is move those background-color properties
into the rules for
.AccordionPanelTab {
and
.AccordionPanelOpen .AccordionPanelTab {
--== Kin ==--

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-khtml-user-select: none;
.AccordionPanelTab a {
color: #93b747;
background-color: #036;
margin: 0px;
padding-left: -10px;
padding-top: -2px;
padding-bottom: -2px;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
display: block;
.AccordionPanelTab a:link {
color: #93b747;
background-color: #036;
margin: 0px;
padding-left: -10px;
padding-top: -2px;
padding-bottom: -2px;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
display: block;
.AccordionPanelTab a:hover {
color: #036;
background-color: #93b747;
margin: 0px;
padding-left: -10px;
padding-top: -2px;
padding-bottom: -2px;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
display: block;
.AccordionPanelTab a:active {
color: #036;
background-color: #93b747;
margin: 0px;
padding-left: -10px;
padding-top: -2px;
padding-bottom: -2px;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
display: block;
.AccordionPanelOpen .AccordionPanelTab {
color: #036;
background-color: #93b747;
border-bottom: solid 1px #036;
text-decoration: none;
.AccordionPanelTabHover {
color: #036;
background-color: #93b747;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: solid 1px #036;
.AccordionPanelOpen .AccordionPanelTabHover {
color: #036;
background-color: #93b747;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
.AccordionFocused .AccordionPanelTab {
color: #93b747;
background-color: #036;
text-decoration: none;
.AccordionFocused .AccordionPanelOpen .AccordionPanelTab {
color: #036;
background-color: #93b747;
border-bottom: solid 1px #036;
text-decoration: none;

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/

DW Tutorial Question (Spry Accordion Widget) Beginner... :-(

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.

Spry Accordion Widget hiccups and more

Hi, I am using the Spry Accordion Widget on my website and have the following problems:
1. Is there a way for the accordion movement not to affect the images that are placed below it. For example, I have the accordion placed on top of 3 different logos. Whenever, the accordion panels move up and down (in use) all the contents (below the accordion) moves with it. I don't want the logos to move up and down whenever someone clicks on the panels. How do I make the logos stationary so its placements won't change?
I don't want to use an ap div tag because that would force my website to be in a fix position on a page. All I have been using to position my graphics are div tags and floats; no ap div tags. If you resize the browser window you will see that my website is somewhat elastic. Meaning, the graphics are always in the center of the page regardless of the size of the browser window—this is something I want to keep.
Please go here for better understanding: http://meinaco.net/tblLists.html
2. When one of the accordion tab is clicked there seems to be some kind of hiccup/jump/jerky (up and down movement) before it settles/stops. Is there a way to fix that? I noticed the accordion moves up and down smoothly prior to my inserting the images into the tab panels. To be clear, the images I am referring to are the brown horizontal lines with white words on a green background. Do these images have anything to do with this problem?
3. When the 1st tab (the restaurant panel) is open and another tab is selected, the restaurant panel displays large incorrectly styled text for a brief second as it closes to allow the other panel to open. I know it has something to do with my style sheet but I can't figure out what is causing it. I checked my css files and it seems they all have the correct size. To see this problem reoccur please do the following:
Make sure the restaurant panel is open then click on another panel (one of the 3 panels). As you click on the second panel pay attention to the text that sits inside the restaurant panel. You will see that large minus leading text will appear for a split second.
4. When I run my webpage (url mentioned above) on Safari 4.0.3 there seems to be a blue line outlining the whole accordion widget. This outline doesn't exist on Firefox nor on Opera. Please see attached image for clarity.
Any suggestions or help on any of these problems is greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.
Meina
I hope someone can help me resolve or give me suggestions for the 1st and 2nd problems at the very least.

<div class="AccordionPanelContent">Castaway the: Restaurant<br />
              1250 Harvard Rd.<br />
              Burbank, CA 91501<br />
              - www.castawayrestaurant.com - (818) 848-6691</p>
Oops!
Missing the opening <p>
I didn't find it, the validator did.
Martin

Desperate help needed in understanding SPRY accordion CSS

hello everybody
like many out there im stumbling through some home/self tuition on DW. I've recently checked out the spry accordion. It all went well up to the part where I wanted to improve the outlook of the accordion. I luckily found some templates on the adobe site with an accordion with the general idea as to how I would like an accordion to look, or at least a platform for future ideas. (Design #2 at: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/?view=samples )
I've had a look through the code and have found great difficulty understanding a few of the div classes that are contained within it, i.e. what they are attributed to etc.
Here is the HTML and the Spry CSS docs that I downloaded from the link above:
HTML code (my issues are highlighted in red)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>OurCompany.com</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="description" content="Designed and developed by Codify Design Studio - codifydesign.com" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="bannerArea">
<div class="bannernav"><a href="#" >Privacy Policy</a> | <a href="#" >Contact Us</a> | <a href="#" >Site Map</a></div>
<div class="toplogo"><a href="#"><img src="images/transparent.gif" width="365" height="90" border="0" /></a></div>
</div>
<div class="contentArea">
<ul class="leftnavigation">
<li><a href="#" >This is definitely navigation item 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#" >Item 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#" >Item 3</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="content">
<div class="contentleft">
<h1>Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet</h1>
<img class="imageright" src="images/content_photo_1.jpg" border="0" />
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sedpharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim. Suspendisse id <a href="#">velitvitae ligula</a> volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. </p>
<img class="imageleft" src="images/content_photo_2.jpg" border="0" /><p>Consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim. Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien.</p>
<p>Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra pos uere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliq uam, <a href="#">nunc eget euismod ullamcorper</a>, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor.</p>
</div>
<div class="contentright">
<div id="SpryAccordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0">
<div class="AccordionPanel">
<div class="AccordionPanelTab tabTop">
<div class="accordion_340_tab">
TELLUS PROIN EU ERAT
</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanelContent">
<div class="acontent">
<p>Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanel">
<div class="AccordionPanelTab middleTab">
<div class="accordion_340_tab">
UMA NON TEMPLUS NUNC
</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanelContent">
<div class="acontent">
<p>Aliquam aliquet, est a ullamcorper condimentum, tellus nulla fringilla elit, a iaculis nulla turpis sed wisi. Fusce volutpat. Etiam sodales ante id nunc. Proin ornare dignissim lacus. Nunc porttitor nunc a sem. Sed sollicitudin velit eu magna. Aliquam erat volutpat. Vivamus ornare est non wisi. Proin vel quam. Vivamus egestas. Nunc tempor diam vehicula mauris. Nullam sapien eros, facilisis vel, eleifend non.</p>
<p>Sed sollicitudin velit eu magna. Aliquam erat volutpat. Vivamus ornare est non wisi. Proin vel quam. Vivamus egestas. Nunc tempor diam vehicula mauris.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanel">
<div class="AccordionPanelTab middleTab">
<div class="accordion_340_tab">
CONSECTETUER ADIPICING ELIT
</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanelContent">
<div class="acontent">
<img class="imageright" src="images/accordion_photo.jpg" border="0" />
<p>Cras tempor. Morbi egestas. Tempus, nunc arcu mollis enim, eu aliqu mam erat nullanon nibh consectetuer malesum adavelit. Nam ante nulla, interdum vel, tristique ac, condimentum non, tellus. Proin ornare feugiat nisl.</p>
<p>Suspendisse dolor nisl, ultrices at, eleifend vel, consequat at, dolor. Vivamus auctor leo vel dui. Aliquam erat volutpat. Phasellus nibh.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionBottom"></div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div>
<div class="footerArea">
<div class="copyright">© 2009 Our Company. All rights reserved.</div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>
I'n terms of the <div class="accordion_340_tab"> i'm really not sure what these mean. I know the label title is situated within them (at least i think they are!!) but i dont quite understand what they are doing or mean. There is no reference to them in any of the code/ CSS sheets i downloaded.
Plus, i'm not quite sure what the two <div style="clear:both;"></div> are clearing.
I know these will be really basic questions and I apologise for having to trouble you but any help would be really really appreciated
This is the spryCSS that came with the link to accompany the HTML file...
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryAccordion.css - Revision: Spry Preview Release 1.4 */
/* 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;
width: 255px;
/* 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.
.AccordionPanelTab {
color: #394867;
margin: 0px;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 10px 30px 10px 20px;
font-weight: bold;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-image: url(../images/accordion_255_tab_normal.gif);
/* 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 {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background-image: url(../images/accordion_255_tile.gif);
/* 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 {
color: #d88a37;
background-image: url(../images/accordion_255_tab_down.gif);
/* 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 {
background-image: url(../images/accordion_255_tab_over.gif);
/* 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: #000000;
/* 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: #000000;
/* Custom AUC classes */
#accordion_255 {
background-image: url(../images/accordion_255_tile.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position: 0px 0px;
.tabTop {
background-position: 0px 0px;
padding-top: 15px;
.middleTab {
background-position: 0px -151px;
.accordion_255_tab {
margin: 0px;
font-weight: bold;
.acontent {
height:200px;
width:220px;
overflow: auto;
padding: 5px 10px 10px 20px;
.AccordionBottom {
width: 255px;
height: 33px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0px bottom;
background-image: url(../images/accordion_255_bottom.gif);
Thank you to anybody again who may be able to assist me with this. I'm very new to DW (and some may say not the brightest) so any low level explanations will be really appreciated.
Kind regards
Andrea x

Heya, I hope my response will help.
First off, I'd like to say that you are correct in being unable to find the " <div class="accordion_340_tab"> " anywhere in the project. I went through and checked all the code and couldn't find a reference anywhere. Also, I downloaded the project from your link, deleted the <div class="accordion_340_tab"> as well as the </div> right after the TELLUS PROIN EU ERAT" (as the opening div and closing div work together and must be added or deleted together) and it had absolutely no impact from what I could see in internet explorer 8 and firefox.
Therefore, I believe, that it was originally intended to do something or in fact did something but they took that out and then forgot to take out the div. Even within the internal .js file I couldn't find a reference. Maybe they forgot to upload a third stylesheet. Either way, it appears to work just fine without it.
"I'm not quite sure what the two <div style="clear:both;"></div> are clearing."
In regards to this, this div style tag is a less frequently used tag that can divide content. Do you know what the HR tag in html is? If not, try putting a <hr> tag (just like that, by itself) in your web page somewhere. HR stands for Horizontal Rule- it makes a horizontal line across the page. This div style clear both tag is basically an invisible HR that helps separate different divs or content or whatever else is on the page. Think of it as an invisible page break.
"I know the label title is situated within them (at least i think they are!!) but i dont quite understand what they are doing or mean."
You should check out some CSS tutorials for the basics, but in a nutshell I'll go ahead and explain what I believe you are having trouble with.
Let's put it this way:
HTML is the core of your web page. It is the content and substance.
CSS is the style of your web page. It is the color, alignment, and format of your page.
The "div" tag by itself is simply <div>. However, you MUST close a div tag somewhere on the page with a </div> A div tag by itself, however, will do absolutely nothing. How do you get it to do something? By making a CSS rule, the two most common of which are known as a "div id" and "div class".
The differences between div id and div class are pretty small- div id is mainly used for a div tag that will only be used once on the web page. Div classes are used for something that will be repeated, in this case, the accordion tabs.
Therefore, when you see something like <div id="content"> text blah blah blah </div>, then you know that the "text blah blah blah" is your content, and that content is being modified to the specifications of the id "content". Where is this "content" div? This is what you as the designer make (or there will already be one in a template) and can usually be found in an external STYLESHEET, which holds all of your css rules, and is then linked to the main web page's html document (where your content is) with a link tag in the header of the html, usually right after the title and before the end of the <header> tag. You will find <link href="example.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> but with a different name in the part i put as "example.css"
Within that css document you have different things you can do. Let's say I want to make one div id and one div class. I want to name the ID "example1" and the class "example2". It would look something like this (note that you must ALWAYS start an ID with # and a class with a period)
#example1 {
width: 450px;
margin:auto;
color: #fff;
.example2 {
width: 900px;
margin: 10px;
color: #000;
I hope this helped.
-Matt

Spry Accordion Panel

hi guys,
i have a Spry accordion panel, in the first panel i have some
dynamic text and some dynamic images, when i open the other panel
below, this opens over the top of the first panel (like it should)
and the dynamic text is covered (like it should) however the images
stay visable in the same place as if the images are placed ontop of
the accordion panel. The images are in the first panel container
though and so should become hidden but don't.
<div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0">
<div class="AccordionPanel">
<div class="AccordionPanelTab">Genral Info</div>
<div class="AccordionPanelContent" id="accordcontent">
<p>Username: <?php echo $row_rsFull['UserName'];
?> </p>
<p>Name: <?php echo $row_rsFull['Forename']; ?>
<?php echo $row_rsFull['Surname']; ?></p>
<p>Date Of Birth: <?php echo
$row_rsFull['DateOfBirth']; ?></p>
<p>University: <?php echo
$row_rsFull['University']; ?></p>
<p>Project Name : <?php echo $row_rsFull['pName'];
?></p>
<p>Project Description: <?php echo
$row_rsFull['pDescription']; ?></p>
<p><img src="<?php echo $row_rsFull['pImage1'];
?>" alt="image 1" class="bottomimage" /><img src="<?php
echo $row_rsFull['pImage2']; ?>" alt="image 2"
class="bottomimage2" /></p>
</div>
</div>
Any Suggestions?

That would be very easy, just remove the tabindex attribute
of the top level div of the accordion. However keyboard navigation
will not work at that moment. The dotted line is a browswer
specific visualisation to show that the specific item is selected
using the tabindex.
You could also add the following style to your page
div:active,
div:focus,
div:hover
outline-style: none; -moz-outline-style:none;
Then none of the div items with a tabindex get an surrounding
border.

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Hi, I'm having some strange issues with the Spry Accordion
Panels.
Here is the page:
http://www.bellaclientcenter.com/browncollege/aboutus.html
For some reason when I preview this message it adds extra
characters to the url above, so just delete those off to see the
correct url.
The only browser this does NOT happen in is safari, I'm
seeing it all of my other browsers. You'll notice when you first
load up the page, you'll see that the active panel header
background is green, and the non active is a dark grey. But when
you click one of the other panels they all turn a strange neon blue
color. This is very apparent in firefox.
Any thoughts on this? I've attached the spry css code in case
the problem is there.
thanks so much!!
Jeff

That is because your page is currently invalid. And renders in IE quirksmode..
<base href="http://www.industrialwebsearch.com/">
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Hello,
I have a Spry Accordion menu with links inside the Accordion
Panel Content. I’m trying to style them using CSS, but
can’t figure out how. I tried this(below) but doesn’t
work.
#AccordionPanelContent a {
font-size:9px;
color:#FF6600;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;
padding-left: 2px;
padding-right:15px;
Here's the HTML code:
<div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion" tabindex="0">
<div class="AccordionPanel">
<div class="AccordionPanelTab">Places</div>
<div class="AccordionPanelContent">
<ul>
<li><a
href="jordan.html">Jordan</a></li>
<li><a
href="bhutan.html">Bhutan</a></li>
<li><a
href="london.html">London</a></li>
<li><a
href="spain.html">Spain</a></li>
<li><a href="rocky.html">Rocky Nat'l Park,
USA</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanel">
<div class="AccordionPanelTab">WildLife</div>
<div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content
3</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanel">
<div class="AccordionPanelTab">Close-ups</div>
<div class="AccordionPanelContent">
<ul>
<li><a
href="flowers.html">Flowers</a></li>
<li><a
href="insects.html">Insects</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="AccordionPanel">
<div class="AccordionPanelTab">People</div>
<div class="AccordionPanelContent">Content
4</div>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var Accordion1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Accordion1");
Thanks for any help on how to style these link,
Dave

Links are not coded into the CSS for the Accordian panel. You
could add the lines in yourself.
Here is what I would recommend. If you want the same link
color regardless of where it is on the document, make another css
document on your own, attach it to the document, and put the
following in it:
a:link {color: #FF0000}
a:visited {color: #00FF00}
a:hover {color: #FF00FF}
a:active {color: #0000FF}
That would just change the color of the links. Active and
Link can be the same if you want even though this example does not
show it. If you need something else, like underlining or bold, you
could use the Reference Panel of DW or post here, and you could
also check out this example:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_link2
This comes from a very good tutorial located at:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
(the Hyperlink stuff is under "psuedo-class" under advanced on the
left menu)
Or if you just need this code to work on the panel only you
would need to do this:
#AccordianPanelContent a:active,
#AccordianPanelContent a:link { CSS CODE HERE }
#AccordianPanelContent a:visited { CSS CODE HERE }
#AccordianPanelContent a:hover { CSS CODE HERE }
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I am very new to web design, so bear with me please.
I created a new website using Dreamweaver and added a spry accordion to use as a menu. it seemed to be working fine, but as I was adding links into the boxes it quit working on me. I have thoughts of restarting, but I thought that you may be able to help me here as well. The link to the website is http://www.blakesprairiefair.com/2009.html
I used images for the tab titles and they should all be uploaded, I shoud haver 5 tabs in the accordion but it only shows one   I am attaching how it looked a few keystrokes ago. I can't figure out why it is acting so oddly
If you need more from me let me know,
Thank you so much for any help
Chuck

Hey, Thanks for the tip. I looked through the code like 5 times and I can't seem to find any unclosed or extra Divs I attached the code below in case that helps.
I got the code for the defaultPanel: -1 from http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Spry/1.4/help.html?content=WS0E55F588-24EC-4dd3-9508-82132 4E7F133.html
- Still haven't found the error
Thanks
Chuck
<!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>Untitled Document</title>
<link href="_css/NewWebpage.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">

</style>
<script src="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body class="oneColElsCtr">
<div id="container">
<div id="mainContent">
<div id="UpperLeftSpacing"></div>
<div id="UpperRightTitle"></div>
<div id="LowerLeft4NavBar">
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      <div id="SmallerNavBar">
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            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">
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                <br>    <a href="http://www.blakesprairiefair.com/index_files/CombineDemoDerby2009.htm">Combine Derby</a></em></p>
              <p><em><strong>Sunday:</br>
                <br>    <a href="http://www.blakesprairiefair.com/index_files/TractorPull.htm">Tractor Pull</a></em></p>
            </div>
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          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><img src="Pix/T-09Docs.jpg" width="175" height="22" /></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">
              <p><em><strong><a href="http://www.blakesprairiefair.com/2009FairBook.pdf">09 Fair Book (pdf)</a></strong></em></p>
              <p><em><strong><a href="http://www.blakesprairiefair.com/index_files/Page396.htm">09 Documents</a></strong></em><a href="http://www.blakesprairiefair.com/index_files/Page396.htm"></a></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><img src="Pix/T-Contact.jpg" width="175" height="22" /></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><strong>Content 5</strong></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><img src="Pix/T-Links.jpg" width="175" height="22" /></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><strong>Content 6</strong></div>
          </div>
          <div class="AccordionPanel">
            <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><img src="Pix/T-Past.jpg" width="175" height="22" /></div>
            <div class="AccordionPanelContent">
              <p>2007</p>
              <p>2008</p>
            </div>
          </div>
</div>
        <div id="Cover">
          <p align="center"><img src="2009Cover.jpg" width="185" height="302" /></br>
          <br>Cover Designed By:</br>
          <br>Andrea Pagenkopf</br>
          <br>Rolling Rockets 4-H</p>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="MainContentBox">
    <div id="BoxForText">
      <p align="center">Welcome to the new</p>
      <p align="center"><strong>Blake's Prairie Jr. Fair </strong></p>
      <p align="center">Webpage</p>
      <p align="center"> </p>
      <p align="center"><strong><em><u>News:</u></em></strong></p>
      <p align="center"><em>Buttons for 2009 are on sale now! </em></p>
      <p align="center"><em>Visit local businesses or contact your local 4-H Club or FFA </em>Chapter to purchase one today.</p>
      <p align="center"> </p>
      <p align="center"><strong><em><u>Updates:</u></em></strong></p>
      <p align="left"><em>7/10/2009</em> - New Homepage</p>
      <p align="left"><em>5/20/2009</em> - <a href="http://www.blakesprairiefair.com/2009FairBook.pdf">2009 Fair Book</a> Added to Site</p>
    </div>
</div>
<div id="BottomBox"></div>

</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

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The menu opens up during the page load and then closes.
I'm using SpryAccordion.js 1.6.1
And to open a preset tab, I'm using:
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
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Thanks, Ron

Well to both thanks. Actually I wasn't disappointed as I had a two part question...
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Visual Reality Productions

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Can anyone suggest a fix for a problem I've encountered on a
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image. Each image has a hot spot linking the image on that
particular accordion panel to another web page. When I view in
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Thanks!

Same problem here too. Also, I can't get a Spry horizontal
menu bar to center within the accordion. As with the extra spacing
glitch, it looks fine in everything except IE7. Is IE still the
browser of choice these days? I don't use it, but I do try to get
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text in the spry accordion menu. I have replaced the text that is
there with a roll-over image link however I'm unable to label it
since it uses the text as the label and therefore can't set the
default panel I want opened. Is there a way to do this? Thanks for
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Stefaan Lesage wrote:
Is this possible with Pages 09 ? And can I achieve this ?
Is it possible to look at the Help or at the Pages User Guide
In the English one, page 17, we may read:
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Hello Em_needs_help,
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