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Pieter van der Westhuizen
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Pieter van der Westhuizen

Pieter van der Westhuizen is a freelance software and web developer specializing in ASP.NET MVC, web technologies, and MS Office development. He started his career in web development using classic ASP, Visual InterDev, HoTMetaL, and FrontPage. Pieter has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and is also one of the people fortunate enough to have his hobby become his full-time profession. He is also a technology evangelist for Add-in Express (www.add-in-express.com), which focuses on tools for Microsoft Office integration. This is Pieter's second book and he has been blogging since 2007 on his personal blog at www.mythicalmanmoth.com and on the Add-in Express blog since 2010. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Pretoria, South Africa.
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The accordion/collapse component


The accordion component is probably best known for FAQ pages or pages that require a lot of content to be broken down into manageable parts. An accordion is made up of a number of panel groups. Each panel group, in turn, has a heading and body elements.

An accordion effect is created by using the Bootstrap collapse plugin which allows you to toggle content in the pages using JavaScript.

To use the accordion component in our project, perform the following steps:

  1. To allow the panel to collapse when the user clicks on its heading, we need to add a data-toggle attribute to an anchor <a> element inside the panel heading element and set its value to collapse.

  2. We also need to specify the parent element of the panel by setting the data-parent attribute's value to the ID of the parent panel group. Next, set the anchor element's href attribute to the ID of the <div> element that contains the content.

  3. Finally, we also need to set the panel body element's class...

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Pieter van der Westhuizen

Pieter van der Westhuizen is a freelance software and web developer specializing in ASP.NET MVC, web technologies, and MS Office development. He started his career in web development using classic ASP, Visual InterDev, HoTMetaL, and FrontPage. Pieter has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry and is also one of the people fortunate enough to have his hobby become his full-time profession. He is also a technology evangelist for Add-in Express (www.add-in-express.com), which focuses on tools for Microsoft Office integration. This is Pieter's second book and he has been blogging since 2007 on his personal blog at www.mythicalmanmoth.com and on the Add-in Express blog since 2010. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Pretoria, South Africa.
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