Request for AJAX code...

[xarzu]

I would love to see a good example of an accordion UI in AJAX. I have poked around on the web and some sites promise one but when you try to use it, it falls flat.

Do you know what I mean by an accordion? I mean that cool user interface where you have a bar on top of some text content and when you clidk on the bar, it smoothly goes up or down to either hide or reveal the text content.

[oubless]

Originally Posted by xarzu

I would love to see a good example of an accordion UI in AJAX. I have poked around on the web and some sites promise one but when you try to use it, it falls flat.

Do you know what I mean by an accordion? I mean that cool user interface where you have a bar on top of some text content and when you clidk on the bar, it smoothly goes up or down to either hide or reveal the text content.

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
This is a javascript library. I started learning it about a week ago.
License:
"jQuery is currently available for use in all personal or commercial projects under both MIT and GPL licenses. This means that you can choose the license that best suits your project, and use it accordingly."
So you can simply use it ( will have to read on your own and do some writing, it does not give ready component, but will help a lot as it supports animation ( like the one you need ) and AJAX wrapper ), or you can use it as example and write you own pure javascript code.

[xarzu]

Another thing is this sliding bar that MSDN uses.
Do you know what I am talking about?
They have a split screen -- sort of like frames -- but you can drag the border between the frame.
MFC Samples General Samples

I can think of all sorts of applications for that. I wonder how they do that. I wonder if it is with AJAX or if you can do this with AJAX.

I will be looking at the javascript that you suggested.

[fahlyn]

xarzu, I replied to your other post about the "frame-like" behavior you're looking for.

I think a lot of what you're talking about isn't AJAX but DHTML. AJAX is only necessary when you need to make a trip to the server without re-loading a page. You can make things on a page move and change using css and javascript to modify the DOM - which isn't AJAX because it is doing everything on the client side without making any extra trips to the server. Hope that clears it up.

Happy Coding!
-Fahlyn