jquery accordion activate does not work

accordion, html, javascript, jquery, jquery-ui

Solution

I think you are looking to open an accordion pane programmatically. If so, you want something like this:

$("#accordion").accordion("option", "active", 1);

(assuming you're using the jQuery UI library)

http://api.jqueryui.com/accordion/#option-active

Note that this opens the second accordion pane, since the options accepts a 0-based integer. (0 is first, 1 is second, etc.). So just make sure you are passing the correct integer to the method call :)

The reason your code won't work is because the jQuery UI team just removed the `activate` method in v1.10 and specifically recommend using what I provided: http://jqueryui.com/upgrade-guide/1.10/#removed-activate-method-use-active-option

Problem

I have a `accordion` like this ``` <div id="accordion"> <h3 id="idname1">text</h3> <div> Text TEXT text </div> <h3 id="idname2">text</h3> <div> Text TEXT text </div> <h3 id="idname3">text</h3> <div> Text TEXT text </div> </div> ``` Now i want the people to click a link (on the top of the page) and then that panel will open en people will see it now every time i call my function ``` $('.myclass').click(function() { // this is to open the right pannel var getal = $(this).attr('id'); alert(getal); // i get the right name $("#accordion").accordion('activate', 1); }); ``` my console gives me this error Error: no such method 'activate' for accordion widget instance i do not know what the problem is i have tried many different things but none worked.

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