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The accordion is a

graphical control element A graphical widget (also graphical control element or control) in a graphical user interface is an element of interaction, such as a button or a scroll bar. Controls are software components that a computer user interacts with through direct ...

comprising a vertically stacked list of items, such as labels or

thumbnail Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures or videos, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search engines and image ...

s. Each item can be "expanded" or "collapsed" to reveal the content associated with that item. There can be zero expanded items, exactly one, or more than one item expanded at a time, depending on the configuration. The term stems from the musical

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

in which sections of the bellows can be expanded by pulling outward. A common example of an accordion is the Show/Hide

operation Operation or Operations may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity * Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory * ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Ma ...

of a box region, but extended to have multiple sections in a list. An accordion is similar in purpose to a tabbed interface, a list of items where exactly one item is expanded into a

panel Panel may refer to: Arts and media Visual arts * Panel (comics), a single image in a comic book, comic strip or cartoon; also, a comic strip containing one such image *Panel painting, in art, either one element of a multi-element piece of art ...

(i.e. list items are

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s to access separate panels).

User definition

Several windows are stacked on each other. All of them are " shaded", so only their captions are visible. If one of them is clicked, to make it active, it is "unshaded" or "maximized". Other windows in accordion are displaced around top or bottom edge.

Examples

A common example using a GUI accordion is the Show/Hide operation of a box region, but extended to have multiple sections in a list. SlideVerse is an accordion interface providing access to web content. The list view of

Google Reader Google Reader was an RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google. It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs. Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of progra ...

also features this. In an early example, Apple's download page used roll-over accordions in 2008. In this example, captured in the

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in the

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, the left column of the page includes three categories that expand on roll-over: "All Downloads", "Top Apple Downloads", and "Top Downloads".

References

External links

jQuery UI accordion widgetmootools
Tutorial (where the effect is called ''sliding shelf'') o
MONFX
Demo of an accordion script {{DEFAULTSORT:Accordion (Gui) Graphical user interface elements Graphical control elements

User definition

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