Looking for a JQuery plug-in similar to Accordion, but that allows multiple sections open at once [closed]

Answer 1

<ul class="accordion">
        <li id="one" class="files">
            <a href="#one">Admin Video</a>
            <ul class="sub-menu">
                <li><a href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/admin/adminvideo/addvideo"><em>01</em>Add video</a></li>
                <li><a href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/admin/adminvideo"><em>02</em>List Video</a></li>
                <li><a href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/admin/adminvideo/categorys"><em>03</em>Video Categories</a></li>                 
            </ul>
        </li>

        <li id="two" class="mail">
            <a  href="#two">Users</a>
            <ul class="sub-menu">
                <li><a href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/admin/admin/listsubs"><em>01</em>Subscribers List</a></li>
                <li><a href="<?php echo base_url();?>"><em>02</em>User Video Suggestion</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>


        <li id="three" class="cloud">
            <a class="active" href="#three">Background Image options</a>
            <ul class="sub-menu">
                <li><a href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/admin/adminsettings"><em>01</em>Add</a></li>
                <li><a href="<?php echo base_url();?>index.php/admin/adminsettings/listbgs"><em>02</em>List</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
    </ul>

$(document).ready(function() {


    var accordion_head = $('.accordion > li > a'),
        accordion_body = $('.accordion li > .sub-menu');
    $.each($(".accordion > li > a"), function(){
        if($(this).attr('class') == 'active')
        {
            $(this).next().slideDown('normal');
        }           
    });



    // Open the first tab on load

    //accordion_head.first().addClass('active').next().slideDown('normal');

    // Click function

    accordion_head.on('click', function(event) {

        // Disable header links

        event.preventDefault();

        // Show and hide the tabs on click

        if ($(this).attr('class') != 'active'){
            accordion_body.slideUp('normal');
            $(this).next().stop(true,true).slideToggle('normal');
            accordion_head.removeClass('active');
            $(this).addClass('active');
        }

    });

});

hopes it helps you

Answer 2

Changed a few things presumably for 1.8.5.

Moving the toggle fixed a state change problem (click show, click no hide, click hide, click show, click hide...) Classes somewhat mismatched jquery's template and rendering suffered

    $(".colapse").addClass("ui-accordion ui-widget ui-helper-reset ui-accordion-icons")
  .find("h3")       
          .addClass("ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-corner-all ui-state-default")
          .prepend('<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-triangle-1-e"/>')
          .click(function() {
              $j(this).toggleClass("ui-accordion-header-active").toggleClass("ui-corner-all").toggleClass("ui-corner-top").toggleClass("ui-state-active")
                          .toggleClass("ui-state-default")
                  .find("> .ui-icon").toggleClass("ui-icon-triangle-1-e").toggleClass("ui-icon-triangle-1-s")
                  .end().next().toggle().toggleClass("ui-accordion-content-active");
              return false;
          })
          .next().addClass("ui-accordion-content ui-helper-reset ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom").hide();

Answer 3

Thanks for everyone's suggestions, but I finally found something on my own that does exactly what I was looking for. I'm adding it as an answer for anyone else who needs something similar.

The Solution
Using the code and sample XHTML here you can extend the JQuery Accordion plug-in to have multiple panels open at once and keep the theming and other functionality provided by the plug-in without recreating the styles.

See the site linked above for a complete example, but here is the meat of the code needed to make the accordion control allow multiple panels to be open. Use the same HTML to define the headers and content as described in the plug-in documentation

    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ui/ui.core.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ui/ui.accordion.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        $("#accordion").addClass("ui-accordion ui-widget ui-helper-reset ui-accordion-icons")
        .find("h3")
            .addClass("ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-corner-top ui-corner-bottom")
            .prepend('<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-triangle-1-e"/>')
            .click(function() {
                $(this).toggleClass("ui-accordion-header-active").toggleClass("ui-state-active")
                    .toggleClass("ui-state-default").toggleClass("ui-corner-bottom")
                .find("> .ui-icon").toggleClass("ui-icon-triangle-1-e").toggleClass("ui-icon-triangle-1-s")
                .end().next().toggleClass("ui-accordion-content-active").toggle();
                return false;
            })
            .next().addClass("ui-accordion-content ui-helper-reset ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom").hide();
    })
    </script>