Blog News

• jQuery Horizontal Accordion 2.70 Preview goes live!
  06.03.2013
• Small delay for the preview of Horizontal Accordion 2.7
  24.02.2013
• jQuery Horizontal Accordion 2.70 Preview
  18.02.2013
• jQuery Horizontal Accordion 2.7 is almost ready
  31.01.2013
• Preparing for jQuery Horizontal Accordion 2.7
  29.01.2013

Coming for 2.7

• complete cleanup
• easy to extend using modular methods, even core methods can be easily overwritten
• easy way to execute new methods on init, eventstart, eventcomplete and eventend
• easy way to extend settings
• after release resizing and looping will be moved to modules
• jQuery 1.7+ required
• tested and working on JQuery 1.9 / 2.0b1
• size reduced
• examples updated
• many other minor fixes with the help of some of you :)

New features for 2.5 / 2.6

• Cleanup of width and container calculation. The full width of the container is used now, all hacks have been removed :)
• Stop/start cycling on mouseenter / mouseleave
• Call external function on complete
• Namespace cleanup
• Clean method layout
• New methods to call content
• More options to add your own external calls
• CSS cleanup & optimization
• Automatic background image slicing for handles + looping
• New resize method
• Refacture the loop to set new loop position, when a button has been clicked
• Animation tweaks

Base functionality

• No dependencies
• Optional use of easing plugin
• Close and open content one after the other
• Close and open at the same time
• Choose trigger (mouseover, click ...)
• Easily control through external calls
• Open content on load
• Open content through hash tags in the url (#tab1, #tab2...)
• Position of handle (left, right)
• Mixed handle positions - 2 left , 2 right ...
• Cycle through content by interval
• Events when animations starts and ends
• Hide content until all has been assembled

History

• Version 2.60.05 (11/2012)
  - cleanup, fixes, new methods
  
• Version 2.00 (2012)
  - minor cleanups
  
• Version 2.00 Beta (2011)
  -complete rewrite
  
• Version 1.00 beta
  - Cleanup of the plugin.
  - Accordion resizes now on window resize
  - use of custom handle content added (see DEMO)
• Version 1.00 alpha
  First plugin release
• Version 0.52
  Disable click for open content
• Version 0.51
  Updated content handling and position of the click handlers. Will be moving this to a plugin and allow a more generic usage.
• Version 0.5
  First release
  

Tested on

Browser	working	comment
Firefox > 4		works fine
IE 6 (not really supported anymore)		works with fixed width setting - other errors related to png images / css (add png fix)
IE 7 / 8 / 9 / 10		works fine
Safari > 5		works fine
Opera > 10		works fine
Chrome		works fine
Konqueror		working fine

License

HORIZONTAL ACCORDION LICENSE

Copyright 2010-2013 portalZINE(R) NMN, Alexander Graef, Germany

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

If you use the Horizontal Accordion for your projects, you need to purchase a valid pro license.

Commercial redistribution of the code is not permitted except by arrangement with portalZINE(R) NMN, Alexander Graef, Germany.