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

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I am looking to have a UI element similar to that offered by the JQUERY Accordion plug-in, but allowing the user to keep multiple sections open at once.

The documentation has the following to say, and suggests an alternate approach with a code snippet (see below). That is great and all, and the code they provide basically works, but I find myself recreating a lot of things built into the plugin like switching out the classes and applying the themes manually in the XHTML.

My Questions:

  1. Before I get too far along the manual route, does anyone know of a similar plug-in, or mod to this one to allow multiple panels to be open at once?

  2. Is there a another common name for an accordion-like control that allows multiple open panels that I could use to Google for other options?

Here is the part I referenced earlier from the documentation, if it matters.

NOTE: If you want multiple sections open at once, don't use an accordion

An accordion doesn't allow more than one content panel to be open at the same time, and it takes a lot of effort to do that. If you are looking for a widget that allows more than one content panel to be open, don't use this. Usually it can be written with a few lines of jQuery instead, something like this:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    $('.accordion .head').click(function() {
        $(this).next().toggle();
        return false;
    }).next().hide();
});

Or animated:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    $('.accordion .head').click(function() {
        $(this).next().toggle('slow');
        return false;
    }).next().hide();
});
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9 Answers

I have done a jQuery plugin that has the same look of jQuery UI Accordion and can keep all tabs\sections open

you can find it here

http://anasnakawa.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/jquery-ui-multi-open-accordion/

works with the same markup

<div id="multiOpenAccordion">
        <h3><a href="#">tab 1</a></h3>
        <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div>
        <h3><a href="#">tab 2</a></h3>
        <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</div>
</div>

Javascript code

$(function(){
        $('#multiOpenAccordion').multiAccordion();
       // you can use a number or an array with active option to specify which tabs to be opened by default:
       $('#multiOpenAccordion').multiAccordion({ active: 1 });
       // OR
       $('#multiOpenAccordion').multiAccordion({ active: [1, 2, 3] });

       $('#multiOpenAccordion').multiAccordion({ active: false }); // no opened tabs
});

UPDATE: the plugin has been updated to support default active tabs option

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Edited anasnakawa code for those who don't need jQuery UI Accordion styling and wants to keep the code simple. (hope you'll find it useful)

HTML:

<div id="multiOpenAccordion">
        <h3>tab 1</h3>
        <div>A lot of text</div>
        <h3>tab 2</h3>
        <div>A lot of thex 2</div>
</div>

Javascript:

$(function(){
        $('#multiOpenAccordion').multiAccordion();
});

Changed code:

(function($){
    $.fn.extend({ 
        multiAccordion: function(options) {
            var defaults = {};
            var options =  $.extend(defaults, options);
            return this.each(function() {
                var $this = $(this);
                var $h3 = $this.children('h3');
                var $div = $this.children('div');

                $h3.click(function(){
                    var $this = $(this);
                    var $div = $this.next();

                    if ($this.hasClass('closed')) {
                        $this.removeClass('closed').addClass('open');
                        $div.slideDown('fast');
                    } else {
                        $this.removeClass('open').addClass('closed');
                        $div.slideUp('fast');
                    }
                });
            });
        }
    });
})(jQuery);

Edit: If you use Malihu custom scrollbar then there may be problems with IE. IE drops error saying

Invalid argument, Line xx, character xxx

I removed this code from Malihu scrollbar (which is responsible about scrolling content which is more than 1000px glitch) - It helped.

$.fx.prototype.cur = function(){
    if ( this.elem[this.prop] != null && (!this.elem.style || this.elem.style[this.prop] == null) ) {
      return this.elem[ this.prop ];
    }
    var r = parseFloat( jQuery.css( this.elem, this.prop ) );
    return typeof r == 'undefined' ? 0 : r;
}

This gave me real headache

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