Accordion

In a graphical user interface, an accordion is a vertically stacked list of items (e.g. labels or thumbnails). Each item can be "expanded" or "stretched" to reveal the content associated with that item. There can be zero or more items expanded at a time, depending on the configuration. The term stems from the musical accordion in which sections of the bellows can be expanded by pulling outward. A common example of a GUI accordion is the Show/Hide... more

In a graphical user interface, an accordion is a vertically stacked list of items (e.g. labels or thumbnails). Each item can be "expanded" or "stretched" to reveal the content associated with that item. There can be zero or more items expanded at a time, depending on the configuration. The term stems from the musical accordion in which sections of the bellows can be expanded by pulling outward. A common example of a GUI accordion is the Show/Hide operation of a box region, but extended to have multiple sections in a list. An accordion is related to a tabbed interface, a horizontal list of items where exactly one item is expanded into a window (shortcuts to access separate windows). Several buttons or labels are stacked upon one another. At most one of them can be "active". When a button is active the space below the button is used to display a paned window. The pane is usually constrained by the width of labels. When opened it shifts labels under the clicked label down according to... less