Accordian AJAX question

**kothap** · 09-19-2012, 11:44 PM

1) Script Title: Accordion Content script (v2.0)

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...daccordion.htm

3) Describe problem: Is there a way to load top level menu items using AJAX? I tried loading the menu items, but the accordian does not show the '+', '-' and does not expand when I drill down to the child menu items.

**ajfmrf** · 09-20-2012, 12:10 AM

Please post your page with the problem so we can look at it.Otherwise it is hard to know what is wrong or not wrong

**kothap** · 09-20-2012, 05:31 AM

Here is the html code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/ddaccordion.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
ddaccordion.startit = function(){ddaccordion.init({
headerclass: "itemheader", //Shared CSS class name of headers group
contentclass: "subitem", //Shared CSS class name of contents group
revealtype: "clickgo", //Reveal content when user clicks or onmouseover the header? Valid value: "click", "clickgo", or "mouseover"
mouseoverdelay: 200, //if revealtype="mouseover", set delay in milliseconds before header expands onMouseover
collapseprev: true, //Collapse previous content (so only one open at any time)? true/false
defaultexpanded: [], //index of content(s) open by default [index1, index2, etc] [] denotes no content
onemustopen: false, //Specify whether at least one header should be open always (so never all headers closed)
animatedefault: false, //Should contents open by default be animated into view?
persiststate: false, //persist state of opened contents within browser session?
toggleclass: ["expanded", "collapsed"], //Two CSS classes to be applied to the header when it's collapsed and expanded, respectively ["class1", "class2"]
togglehtml: ["suffix", "<img src='images/plus.gif' class='statusicon' />", "<img src='images/minus.gif' class='statusicon' />"], //Additional HTML added to the header when it's collapsed and expanded, respectively ["position", "html1", "html2"] (see docs)
animatespeed: "fast", //speed of animation: integer in milliseconds (ie: 200), or keywords "fast", "normal", or "slow"
oninit:function(headers, expandedindices){ //custom code to run when headers have initalized
},
onopenclose:function(header, index, state, isuseractivated){ //custom code to run whenever a header is opened or closed
}
});
};
ddaccordion.startit();
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function() {
displayItems();
});

</script>

</HEAD>
<BODY>
<div id="main_container">
<div class="main_content">
<ul class="sidebarmenu" id="menu">
<div id="itemslist">

</div>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

</body>
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displayItems function to add list:

function displayItems(){
url = "./items.xml";
$.ajax({
type:"GET",
url:url,
cache:false,
dataType:"xml",
success: function(xml) {
var i = '#itemslist';
var item1 = $(i);
item1.empty();

$(xml).find("item").each(function(){
var appendString = "";
appendString = '<a href="#" class="item itemheader">'+$(this).attr("name")+'</a>';
appendString += '<div class="subitem">';
appendString += '<ul>';
appendString += '<li><a href="#">sub menu</li>';
appendString += '</ul>';
appendString += '</div>';
item1.append(appendString);
});
},
error: function(xml){
alert('error');
}
});

}
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style.css file:

#main_container{
margin:0 auto;
width:1200px;
padding:10px 0 10px 0;
}

.main_content{
margin:0 auto;
width:1200px;
height:auto;
padding:0px 0 50px 0;
}

.sidebarmenu{
margin:0px 0;
padding:0;
width:195px;
}
.sidebarmenu a.item{background:url(images/sidebar_menu_top.gif) no-repeat center top;
color: #FFF;display: block;position: relative;width:185px;height:31px;margin:0 0 5px 0;line-height:31px;padding:0px 0 0 10px;text-decoration: none;
}
.sidebarmenu a.item:hover{background:url(images/sidebar_menu_top_a.gif) no-repeat center top;}

.sidebarmenu a.item:visited, .sidebarmenu .item:active{
color: white;
}
.sidebarmenu a.item .statusicon{
position: absolute;
top:11px;
right:7px;
border: none;
}

.sidebarmenu div.subitem{
background: white;
}
.sidebarmenu div.subitem ul{
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 5px 0;
}
.sidebarmenu div.subitem ul li{
border-bottom: 1px dotted #bfd1d9;
}
.sidebarmenu div.subitem ul li a{
display: block;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
padding:5px 0;
padding-left: 10px;
}
.sidebarmenu div.subitem ul li a:hover{
background: #e2f0ff;
color: #0e4354;
}

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Here is the external file items.xml from which the hierarchy is built:

<items>
<item description="Main Item1" id="mainitem1" name="Main Item1"/>
<item description="Main Item2" id="mainitem2" name="Main Item2"/>
</items>
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When I load the accordian using dynamic Ajax content, I don't see the accordian with the +, - icons and also the accordian does not expand when I click on the node.

However, it works if the loading is static from html (uncomment out lines <!--a class="item itemheader" ...), How do I get the accordian to work when content is dynamically loaded using Ajax?