Spry Accordion Closing Panels

Guys
New to Spry Accordion. At the moment I've managed to
configure the .js file to make the panels automatically closed on
start-up. They open fine when clicked, but a second click on the
headers won't then close the panel - it only closes on selection of
the next panel.
Can anyone (in simple terms!!) advise where I'm going wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Steve

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/accordion/AccordionSample.html
This feature is only supported when using variable height
panels, so you must pass a false into the Accordion's constructor
for the
"useFixedPanelHeights" constructor option, and a -1 for the
"defaultPanel" option:
<script type="text/javascript">
var acc1 = new Spry.Widget.Accordion("Acc1", {
useFixedPanelHeights: false, defaultPanel: -1 });
</script>
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com
"Centaurus18" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Guys
>
> New to Spry Accordion. At the moment I've managed to
configure the .js file
> to make the panels automatically closed on start-up.
They open fine when
> clicked, but a second click on the headers won't then
close the panel - it only
> closes on selection of the next panel.
>
> Can anyone (in simple terms!!) advise where I'm going
wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Steve
>

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So you new constructor should look like:
var variablename = new
Spry.Widget.Accordion('id-element',{useFixedPanelHeights: false,
defaultPanel: -1 });
save, reload the page and it should work.
@ausm94 you can download the complete Spry package including
all samples and API from adobe labs:
labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/

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