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Brian is an interaction designer, developer, and all around web geek currently working as a User Interface Engineer for AutoTrader.com in Atlanta, GA. You can keep up with his latest thoughts and community code at his personal site or Follow Brian on Twitter
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Create a Simple, Intelligent Accordion Effect Using Prototype and Scriptaculous

Brian Crescimanno on Jun 11th 2008 with 216 comments

We’ve all seen the “accordion” type effect used on many Web 2.0 sites; however, many accordion scripts are heavy, make poor use of the libraries they are based on, and don’t handle things like ensuring that the accordion maintains a consistent height. In this tutorial, we will use the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries to create a lightweight, intelligent accordion.

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