jQuery Accordion - open specific section on pageload

Question

I have a rather basic implementation of a jQuery Accordion on a page (using 1.3.2, jQuery UI Core 1.72 and jQuery UI Accordion 1.7.2), and I wish to open the 2nd section whe

Answer 1

As others have mentioned, the following will make it active on opening:

$("#accordion").accordion({ active: 1 });

It is active:1 since it is the 2nd of the accordion's index {0,1,2,...}; There seems to be some confusion in other answers as the element's contents contain the character "2"...