Accordionmenu

Welcome

Here you can find resouces and a small documentaion of the jQuery plugin.

Initializing the menu

jQuery(function() {
    jQuery("#acdnmenu").accordionMenu();
});

This is the structure

<div id="acdnmenu" style="width:208px;height:390px; background-color:#e2ecf5; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;">
    <ul>
        <li>Topic
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Link 3</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li>Sub Menu
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">Link 1</a>
                </li>
                <li>Sub Level 1
                    <ul>
                        <li><a href="#">Sub Link 1</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#">Sub Link 2</a></li>
                        <li>Sub Level 2
                            <ul>
                                <li><a href="#">Sub Link 1</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Sub Link 2</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Sub Link 3</a></li>
                                <li><a href="#">Sub Link 4</a></li>
                            </ul>
                        </li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Normal Link 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Normal Link 2</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

Use this css sheet to style the menu

#acdnmenu {
    height: 300px;
    width: 240px;
    margin: 0px;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnTop {
    display: block;
    border: 1px solid #D8E2F3;
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
    padding-left: 0;
}
#acdnmenu div.acdnHeading, #acdnmenu a.acdnLink {
    background: url("bg.gif") repeat-x scroll 0 0 #E8FFF8;
    color: #000000;
    font: 12px Verdana;
    outline: medium none;
    padding: 8px 8px 8px 24px;
    text-align: left;
    text-decoration: none;
}
#acdnmenu div.acdnCurrent, #acdnmenu div:hover, #acdnmenu a.acdnLink:hover, #acdnmenu div.acdnCurrent a.acdnLink {
    background-position: 0 -64px;
    color: #000000;
    font-weight: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
}
#acdnmenu a.acdnCurrent, #acdnmenu a.acdnCurrent:hover {
    color: #336699;
    text-decoration: none;
}
#acdnmenu div.acdnArrowImage {
    background-image: url("arrows.gif");
    background-position: 0 0;
    height: 12px;
    left: 4px;
    top: 9px;
    width: 12px;
}
#acdnmenu div.acdnCurrent div.acdnArrowImage {
    background-position: 0 -12px;
}
#acdnmenu li.acdnSeparator {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #D8E2F3;
    padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;
    margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;
    font-size: 0px;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnSub {
    padding-left: 14px;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnSub div.acdnHeading {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    color: #000000;
    font: 12px Arial;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 20px;
    text-align: left;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnSub div.acdnHeading a {
    color: #000000;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnSub div.acdnCurrent {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    color: #000000;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnSub a.acdnLink {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    color: #000000;
    font: 11px Arial;
    padding: 5px 5px 5px 20px;
    text-decoration: none;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnSub a.acdnLink:hover, #acdnmenu ul.acdnSub a.acdnCurrent, #acdnmenu ul.acdnSub div.acdnHeading a:hover, #acdnmenu ul.acdnSub div.acdnHeading a.acdnCurrent {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: underline;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnSub div.acdnArrowImage {
    background-image: url("arrows.gif");
    background-position: 0 -24px;
    height: 12px;
    left: 4px;
    top: 6px;
    width: 12px;
}
#acdnmenu ul.acdnSub div.acdnCurrent div.acdnArrowImage {
    background-position: 0 -36px;
}
#acdnmenu, #acdnmenu ul {
    display: block;
    font-size: 0;
    line-height: 0;
}
#acdnmenu li {
    font-size: 12px;
    line-height: 16px;
}
#acdnmenu:after {
    clear: both;
    content: ".";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    visibility: hidden;
}
#acdnmenu ul {
    list-style-type: none;
    margin: 0px;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding: 0px;
    position: relative;
    top:0px;
    display: none;
}
#acdnmenu li {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}
#acdnmenu div.acdnHeading, #acdnmenu div.acdnCurrent {
    cursor: pointer;
    position: relative;
}
#acdnmenu div.acdnArrowImage {
    overflow: hidden;
    position: absolute;
}