Question

I have a Jquery accordion which works fine. Sections get expanded/collapsed when clicked on respective headers. But I want to add the functionality so that when I click on “next” button it opens up the next section and clicking “Previous” button takes me back to previous section.

This has been done on this page http://jquery.bassistance.de/accordion/demo/?p=1.1.2 (last example) but not sure how do I implement the same in my case.

Any suggestions please.

Thanks

UPDATE: How do I get previous or next section of the accordion?

<script type="text/javascript">
 $("#accordion").accordion({ 
   header: "h3.header"
   , autoHeight: false
   , collapsible: true
  });
</script>

<div id="accordion">
 <h3 class="header">Section 1</h3>
 <div> content 1 .. content 1 .. content 1 .. content 1 ..
  <input class="next" type="button" value="next"/>   
 </div>
 <h3 class="header">Section 2</h3>
 <div> content 2 .. content 2 .. content 2 .. content 2 ..
  <input class="previous" type="button" value="previous"/>
  <input class="next" type="button" value="next"/>   
 </div>
 <h3 class="header">Section 3</h3>
 <div> content 3 .. content 3 .. content 3 .. content 3 ..
  <input class="previous" type="button" value="previous"/>
 </div> 
</div>

Answer 1

I was able to get it to work. Give this a shot, it works with jQuery 1.6 and jQuery UI 1.8:

HTML:

<div id="checkout">
    <h2><a href="#">Section 1</a></h2>
    <div>
        <form action="#">
            <h3>Content</h3>
            <input type="submit" class="next" value="Continue" />
        </form>
    </div>
    <h2><a href="#">Section 2</a></h2>
    <div>
        <form action="#">
            <h3>Content</h3>
            <input type="submit" class="prev" value="Back" />
        </form>
    </div>
</div>

jQuery:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        // create new accordion
        var checkout = $('#checkout').accordion({ event: false });

        // assign accordion navigation events to button clicks
        $('form', checkout).each(function (index) {
            $(this)
            .children(':submit')
            .filter('.next, .prev')
            .click(function () {
                checkout.accordion('option', 'active', index + ($(this).is('.next') ? 1 : -1));
                return false;
            });
        });
    });
</script>