Accordians are very useful to provide a method of showing menu items of lists without taking too much space and preventing an assymetric site. In this post, we reference some of the accordians that are out on the internet that may be useful to you.

JQuery UI Accordian

This is a built in accordian that comes with the JQuery UI interface.

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Jörn Zaefferer Accordion

A professional looking accordion. There are two versions of the accordion. One with unordered list and the other using DIV tags.

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LearningJQuery’s Accorion Madness Article

An interesting blog article on how to create Accorions. There are more articles on this blog that you can navigate to.

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DesignReviver’s Horizontal Accordian

This is a horizontal accordion using images and unordered list.

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Dynamic Drive’s Accordion

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Render Robot’s Accordion with Fade In/Out Effect

In this accordion, the child menu items fade in/out when the main menu item is clicked.

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Bernd Matzner’s Hover Accordion

This accordion functions by expanding and collapsing the sub menus when the mouse is hovered over the main menu element.

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The God King’s Horizontal Accordion

Nice horizontal accordion with vertically presented text for main menu items.

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Eye-Con’s Accordion

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Portal Zine’s XBOX 360 Like Accordion

This is an impressive piece of work that looks like the accordion from XBOX 360’s menu console. However, it works well on IE only. Had some problems in Firefox.

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Leigeber’s Horizontal Accordion

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Pengo Works Accordion Based on (John Resig’s Code)

When clicking the main menu, there is a sound clip that is run.

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