I’ve been scouring the web to try and find an update to this question but am unable to find an up to date answer.
I have an existing site that uses accordion navigation menus on every page, but the client now wants an accordion adding to a fair few pages. I’ve tried it, but it causes the accordion to stop working.
As I don’t know how to find out how up to date my actions are, are the latest versions compatible OR is there an alternative carousel type action that IS compatible with accordion?
In actual fact, I’m asking about carousel, but it might not be a carousel I want. The client has asked me to emulate the ‘carousel’ shown here http://www.caswells-strings.co.uk/shop/cellos/827-stentor-ii-1-8.html but this advances one frame at a time which, to my knowledge, Carousel doesn’t. Should I be using a different action?
I’ve tried it, but it causes the accordion to stop working.
Which accordion have you used? If you are using the MooTools accordion action then that is why. There is a conflict between that javascript library and the one used by the Carousel action. Try using ScriptyAccordion instead.
Not exactly. ScriptyAccordion is “Convention over Configuration” as
opposed to the Moo Accordion, which I believe requires you to apply
“marker” Actions to each of the parts.
To apply ScriptyAccordion, you create a layer-cake of elements inside
(and inline) of a single HTML box. The Action is applied to this
container HTML box, and that’s the only place you need to set anything.
Each header layer (frosting) is followed by a content layer (cake).
The rule is that the headers all have to be one type of HTML element
(img, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, li, div) and the content layers all have to
be a DIFFERENT HTML element. So you could have images as your headers,
followed by a paragraph of text, or DIVs (inline HTML boxes) followed
by an unordered list, any sort of mix/match combo that makes sense for
your content. The default settings are H2 tags for your headers, and P
tags for your content. You can of course style these elements to
appear any way you like, there’s no need for the elements to look any
particular way as long as their published HTML structure follows the
rules you’ve set in the Action palette.
Once you set this up, it’s enormously flexible, and you can easily
change the content without having to fiddle with a bunch of helper
Actions to define the individual elements. I wrote this Action after
reading the first tutorials posted on the Softpress site showing how
to build an Accordion with the FX Actions. Talk about a ship in a
bottle!
Walter
On Apr 11, 2011, at 1:31 PM, neil.west1 wrote:
Thanks chuckamuck
Does the scriptyaccordion work in the same way as the moo version
i.e. can I just swap actions?
Okay, I’m not getting anywhere very fast. I’m following your instructions and trying to adapt my elements to suit but not having any success in getting it to work. It’s obvious that I’m doing something wrong, and I suspect that it may be down to the fact that I’ve got a graphic as the trigger but also graphics as rollovers in the accordion part. I’m also not sure about the tags - how do I apply an img tag to the graphics? seeing as I don’t appear to be able to apply a style to a graphic.
Can you do me a favour please Walt, and have a look at the site http://www.stowasis.com/index.php and let me know whether it is possible to replace the current moo accordion with your accordion, but still have the same functionality and appearance. As much as I want to get carousels onto some of these pages, if I need to dramatically change the navigation, or spend a load of time doing it, then the client may not be too happy.
If the navigation is locked, then why not look for a Moo-based carousel effect? If you find one, we may be able to wedge that into your page more easily than to reconstruct your navigation.