Accordion

About Accordion Element

Summary: The Accordion Element aims to create collapsible content on a page to provide a cleaner user experience and increase your conversion rate. You can use the Accordion element as the content for Tabs, Slideshow element, or to show FAQs of your store.

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How To Access The Accordion Element

• Step 1: Click on the Plus icon, which is the Add element function
• Step 2: Click on the Accordion element in the dropdown menu
• Step 3: Drag and drop the element you want into the page editor and then start using it.

The Accordion element comes with multiple variations covering most needs. But we will continue to add more variations to help you save time.

Drag a variation to the layout and see how it can be configured.

How To Configure For Accordion Element

Accordion element comes with plenty of parameters allowing you to fine-tune content appearance for the best possible conversion rate.

• Step 1: Click on the Add Element function on the left toolbar
• Step 2: Click on the Accordion in the menu
• Step 3: Drag and drop the variants that you need into the page editor and then start using it.

Select the element in the layout to see its parameters.

In this article, we’ll show the parameters of the General and Styling tabs for the Accordion element.

General Configuration

Accordion Items Accordion items: Add/remove/duplicate accordion(s)
Accordion Icon Accordion icon: 3 icon styles for your preferences
Icon Position Icon Position: Choose between left or right.
Allow Open Multiple Allow Open Multiple: This feature only works on the live page	Turn on/ Turn off Allow Open Multiple buttons: Display on the Live View:
Default Active Item Default Active Item: The default accordion item to be opened without being clicked on. (This feature only works on the live page)
Enable Scroll Top Enable Scroll Top:  The page will automatically scroll to the top of an accordion header when user clicks on it. (This feature only works on the live page)

You can get further information about ATTRIBUTES, VISIBILITY, ANIMATION parameters here

Styling Configuration

You can choose to style for:

• Accordion Header

• Accordion Content

You can check more information about the Styling tab here

How To Customize Accordion Header

Accordion element that serves as an Accordion Header. Each Accordion Header element plays a role as a button that controls the visibility of its content panel.

You can Duplicate/Delete/Copy style/Paste style for each accordion header in the toolbar right above it here.

General Settings

Accordion Items Accordion items: Add/remove/duplicate accordion(s)
Header Text Header text: Add the content and style for text inside Accordion Header
Anchor Text Anchor Text: Add anchor text here. In live view, you can add the ‘#” icon with anchor text behind the page URL to scroll down exactly to this accordion header element. (This feature only works on the live page)
Show Icon Show Icon: Add icon for Accordion Header

Styling Configuration

For Accordion Header Styling, aside from the below parameters, you can choose Header State for it, which contains 3 options: Normal state, Mouse over state, and Active/Selected state.

You can check more information about the Styling tab here.

Contained Element Settings

The Accordion element is a group of multiple contents such as a Heading, Paragraph, Image,… You can edit Accordion Content by dragging and dropping other elements in it as a normal section.

With this in mind, you can drag and drop any other elements inside accordion content.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is PageFly Accordion?

The Accordion is a graphical display comprising a vertically stacked list of items, such as labels or thumbnails. The item can be “expanded” or “collapsed”, to show the complicated content. This element is perfect for long paragraphs, for example: in Guidelines, Terms and Policies Categories.

What Can I Customize Inside The Accordion Element?

You can add Columns, Text, Images, HTML or Headings… any type in the Basic Elements, available in the PageFly dashboard.

Additional Resources

• Use Case – Add Accordion