I am trying to add scripty accordion to a page and it seems to be acting odd. When I hover over graphic elements, it sometimes opens, sometimes not. Sometimes it opens everything at once and will not close without doing a page refresh.
It’s probably something I’m doing wrong. But after a few hours working on it, I’m out of ideas. I’ve read a lot of the posts on scripty accordion, but I can’t figure out what happening.
I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
I went back and rebuilt it following Walt’s instructions using graphics for triggers, P as the disclosed text. Then I added the Scripty Accordion action and the Modify Height action set to Undefined.
It still acted flakey (as described above) with hover as the trigger event. When I changed the trigger event to click it worked correctly. It looks like something about the hover is causing the problem.
Unfortunately, I need the trigger event on the graphic to link to a new page. So it looks like I will have to give up on using Scripty Accordion for this. Too bad, since it’s a great action.
Before you give up entirely, try using an inline HTML box to contain your paragraph of text after the image. Highlight all of your text after the first graphic header, and cut it to the clipboard. At the flashing text cursor this operation leaves behind, use the Insert / HTML Item menu command to add an inline HTML box. Drag out its corner to be an appropriate width, double-click inside it and paste your text back in, and then set its height to Flexible. Repeat for each of the other text blocks. Once you’ve done this, change the Action settings to use DIV instead of P in the disclosure item picker.
Walter
On Jan 31, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Craig wrote:
Hi Dave,
I went back and rebuilt it following Walt’s instructions using graphics for triggers, P as the disclosed text. Then I added the Scripty Accordion action and the Modify Height action set to Undefined.
It still acted flakey (as described above) with hover as the trigger event. When I changed the trigger event to click it worked correctly. It looks like something about the hover is causing the problem.
Unfortunately, I need the trigger event on the graphic to link to a new page. So it looks like I will have to give up on using Scripty Accordion for this. Too bad, since it’s a great action.
You can’t use the logos to expand the accordion effect and also act as a link. Put the logo and the link elsewhere, and use the headers purely to expand the accordion.
Probably not, but it feels confusing to me to have the same object do two different things. Plus, on iOS and Android, the first click is highjacked to behave like the mouseover, so you’d click once and the mouseover would happen, then have to click again to go to the URL. I would just put that link in the disclosure area, something like this:
[ yelp ]
Paragraph of yelp info, maybe quote a few yelpers here.
{see more at yelp.com} <- link
[ next button ]
[ next button ]
...
Walter
On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:15 PM, Craig wrote:
Walter,
Is this true regardless of whether the trigger event is hover or click?