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Nested accordion in tab breaks out of the box

in Using jQuery UI • 12 years ago

Hi,
I've made a page where I nest an accordion (A2) in an accordion (A1) in a tab. Functionally everything works the way I want it to. But visually I have a problem. A1 stays within the boundaries of the tab, but A2 does not.
How can I solve this?
As an example says more than words I've provided one on Music Collection
The theme is vader (with only one change: the background color of the active accordion bar)
Thanks for any help or ideas

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dustin_mb

Re: Nested accordion in tab breaks out of the box

12 years ago

I don't know whether this is the best solution (or a complete solution), but I've been playing around with this as well. I've found that if I remove from jquery-ui-1.8.10.custom.css (or jquery.ui.accordion.css, if you're using CSS from dev. bundle folder of UI download, which I am) the width from the .ui-accordion then nested accordions are constrained within their respective accordions.

In this line in CSS, with width commented out.

.ui-accordion { /*width: 100%;*/ }

According to the comment in the CSS, this bug http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/4615 is the rationale for setting the width in the CSS on the .ui-accordion to explicitly fix an IE 6/7 issue - setting width to 100% fixes issue of hanging/disjointed accordion panel header when div wrapper has background.

I've found that this is only a problem when you init your accordion with autoHeight: true. If I set up with autoHeight: false and then set the width of a div wrapper to 100% (and even a background on it) rather than having the jqueryUI CSS set it for the .ui-accordion, then I find that the hanging/disjointed accordion header issue doesn't occur, even if you have a wrapper with set background.

So, setting up the accordions:

$( "#a1" ).accordion({
autoHeight: false,
navigation: true,
collapsible: true,
header: "h3.l1"
});
$( "#a2" ).accordion({
autoHeight: false,
navigation: true,
collapsible: true,
header: "h3.l2"
});
$( "#a3" ).accordion({
autoHeight: false,
navigation: true,
collapsible: true,
header: "h3.l2"
});

The markup:

<div style="background:red; width:100%">
<h2>Accordion</h2>
<div id="a1">
<div>
<h3 class="l1"><a href="#">First</a></h3>
<div id="a2">
<div>
<h3 class="l2"><a href="#">First</a></h3>
<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
</div>
<div>
<h3 class="l2"><a href="#">Second</a></h3>
<div>Phasellus mattis tincidunt nibh.</div>
</div>
<div>
<h3 class="l2"><a href="#">Third</a></h3>
<div>Nam dui erat, auctor a, dignissim quis.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<h3 class="l1"><a href="#">Second</a></h3>
<div id="a3">
<div>
<h3 class="l2"><a href="#">First</a></h3>
<div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div>
</div>
<div>
<h3 class="l2"><a href="#">Second</a></h3>
<div>Phasellus mattis tincidunt nibh.</div>
</div>
<div>
<h3 class="l2"><a href="#">Third</a></h3>
<div>Nam dui erat, auctor a, dignissim quis.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<h3 class="l1"><a href="#">Third</a></h3>
<div>Nam dui erat, auctor a, dignissim quis.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

If you do need autoHeight: true, and you're concerned about IE 6/7 issues, well, I haven't figured that out yet. In testing, I've found that when autoHeight: true is set, that the markup above and removing the width: 100% from the jquery UI CSS still helps with the bug, but a new issue appears - my nested accordion in the main Second panel fails with sizing issues. Still fiddling with this and hoping it is some combination of CSS declarations that would sort it out.

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