Jquery accordion, next and previous wizard, how to get previous and next sections?

Question

Hi

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

Have you tried to do just like in example?

var wizard = $("#accordion").accordion({ 
    header: 'h3.header', 
    event: false
}); 

$("h3.header", wizard).each(function(index) { 
    $(this) 
    .next() 
    .children(":button") 
    .filter(".next, .previous") 
    .click(function() { 
        wizard.changeAccordion("activate", index + ($(this).is(".next") ? 1 : -1)) 
    }); 
});

Answer 2

I've solved it now.

Answer 3

what was the resolution?? Love to see how you made this work as I am stuck in the same exact place.. have a working accordion, I've disabled the click event on the headers.. now how to get my links within each accordions content to activate the next accordion section???

Answer 4

I was looking for a solution to the same problem and come up with this (I'm working with jQuery 1.4.2 and jQuery UI 1.8.1):

<div id="wizard">
    <h3><a href="#step1">Step 1 / 3</a></h3>
    <div id="step1">
        <button type="button">Next &raquo;</button>
    </div>
    <h3><a href="#step2">Step 2 / 3</a></h3>
    <div id="step2">
        <button type="button">Next &raquo;</button>
    </div>
    <h3><a href="#step3">Step 3 / 3</a></h3>
    <div id="step3">
        <button type="submit">Finish</button>
    </div>
</div>

And this is the script:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {

        $('#wizard').accordion();

        $('#wizard :button').each(function (index, elm) {
            $(elm).click(function() {
                $('#wizard').accordion('activate', index + 1);
            });
        });

    });
</script>