Collapse

Bootstrap collapse

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Toggle the visibility of content across your project with a few classes and our JavaScript plugins.

How it works

The collapse JavaScript plugin is used to show and hide content. Buttons or anchors are used as triggers that are mapped to specific elements that you can toggle. Collapsing an element will animate the height from it’s current value to 0. Given how CSS handles animations, you cannot use padding on a .collapse element. Instead, you may use the class as an independent wrapping element.

Example

Click the buttons below to show and hide another element via class changes:

.collapse hides content
.collapsing is applied during transitions
.collapse.show shows content

You can use a link with the href attribute, or a button with the data-target attribute. In both cases, data-toggle="collapse" is required.

Link with href

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        <!-- Collapse buttons -->
        <div>
          <a class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseExample" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseExample">
            Link with href
          </a>
          <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapseExample"
            aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseExample">
            Button with data-target
          </button>
        </div>
        <!-- / Collapse buttons -->

        <!-- Collapsible element -->
        <div class="collapse" id="collapseExample">
          <div class="mt-3">
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            keffiyeh helvetica,
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          </div>
        </div>
        <!-- / Collapsible element -->

Multiple targets

A <button> or <a> can show and hide multiple elements by referencing them with a JQuery selector in its href or data-target attribute. Multiple uses of <button> or <a> can show and hide an element if they each reference it with their href or data-target attributes.

Toggle first element

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        <!-- Collapse buttons -->
        <div>
          <a class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="collapse" href="#multiCollapseExample1" role="button" aria-expanded="false"
            aria-controls="multiCollapseExample1">Toggle first element</a>
          <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#multiCollapseExample2"
            aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="multiCollapseExample2">Toggle second element</button>
          <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".multi-collapse"
            aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="multiCollapseExample1 multiCollapseExample2">Toggle both elements</button>
        </div>
        <!--/ Collapse buttons -->

        <!-- Collapsible content -->
        <div class="row">
          <div class="col">
            <div class="collapse multi-collapse" id="multiCollapseExample1">
              <div class="card card-body">
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                anim keffiyeh helvetica, craft beer labore wes anderson cred nesciunt sapiente ea proident.
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div class="col">
            <div class="collapse multi-collapse" id="multiCollapseExample2">
              <div class="card card-body">
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              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
        <!--/ Collapsible content -->

Accordion MDB Pro component

Using the card component, you can extend the default collapse behavior to create an accordion.

Collapsible Group Item #1

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Collapsible Group Item #2

Collapsible Group Item #3

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        <!--Accordion wrapper-->
        <div class="accordion md-accordion" id="accordionEx" role="tablist" aria-multiselectable="true">

          <!-- Accordion card -->
          <div class="card">

            <!-- Card header -->
            <div class="card-header" role="tab" id="headingOne1">
              <a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordionEx" href="#collapseOne1" aria-expanded="true"
                aria-controls="collapseOne1">
                <h5 class="mb-0">
                  Collapsible Group Item #1 <i class="fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon"></i>
                </h5>
              </a>
            </div>

            <!-- Card body -->
            <div id="collapseOne1" class="collapse show" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingOne1" data-parent="#accordionEx">
              <div class="card-body">
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                wolf moon officia aute, non cupidatat skateboard dolor brunch. Food truck quinoa nesciunt laborum
                eiusmod. Brunch 3 wolf moon tempor, sunt aliqua put a bird on it squid single-origin coffee nulla
                assumenda shoreditch et. Nihil anim keffiyeh helvetica, craft beer labore wes anderson cred
                nesciunt sapiente ea proident. Ad vegan excepteur butcher vice lomo. Leggings occaecat craft beer
                farm-to-table, raw denim aesthetic synth nesciunt you probably haven't heard of them accusamus
                labore sustainable VHS.
              </div>
            </div>

          </div>
          <!-- Accordion card -->

          <!-- Accordion card -->
          <div class="card">

            <!-- Card header -->
            <div class="card-header" role="tab" id="headingTwo2">
              <a class="collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordionEx" href="#collapseTwo2"
                aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseTwo2">
                <h5 class="mb-0">
                  Collapsible Group Item #2 <i class="fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon"></i>
                </h5>
              </a>
            </div>

            <!-- Card body -->
            <div id="collapseTwo2" class="collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingTwo2" data-parent="#accordionEx">
              <div class="card-body">
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                wolf moon officia aute, non cupidatat skateboard dolor brunch. Food truck quinoa nesciunt laborum
                eiusmod. Brunch 3 wolf moon tempor, sunt aliqua put a bird on it squid single-origin coffee nulla
                assumenda shoreditch et. Nihil anim keffiyeh helvetica, craft beer labore wes anderson cred
                nesciunt sapiente ea proident. Ad vegan excepteur butcher vice lomo. Leggings occaecat craft beer
                farm-to-table, raw denim aesthetic synth nesciunt you probably haven't heard of them accusamus
                labore sustainable VHS.
              </div>
            </div>

          </div>
          <!-- Accordion card -->

          <!-- Accordion card -->
          <div class="card">

            <!-- Card header -->
            <div class="card-header" role="tab" id="headingThree3">
              <a class="collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordionEx" href="#collapseThree3"
                aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseThree3">
                <h5 class="mb-0">
                  Collapsible Group Item #3 <i class="fas fa-angle-down rotate-icon"></i>
                </h5>
              </a>
            </div>

            <!-- Card body -->
            <div id="collapseThree3" class="collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingThree3" data-parent="#accordionEx">
              <div class="card-body">
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                wolf moon officia aute, non cupidatat skateboard dolor brunch. Food truck quinoa nesciunt laborum
                eiusmod. Brunch 3 wolf moon tempor, sunt aliqua put a bird on it squid single-origin coffee nulla
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                nesciunt sapiente ea proident. Ad vegan excepteur butcher vice lomo. Leggings occaecat craft beer
                farm-to-table, raw denim aesthetic synth nesciunt you probably haven't heard of them accusamus
                labore sustainable VHS.
              </div>
            </div>

          </div>
          <!-- Accordion card -->

        </div>
        <!-- Accordion wrapper -->

Accessibility

Be sure to add the attribute aria-expanded to the control element. This attribute explicitly conveys the current state of the collapsible element tied to the control of screen readers and similar assistive technologies. If the collapsible element is closed by default, the attribute on the control element should have a value of aria-expanded="false". If you’ve set the collapsible element to be open by default using the show class, set aria-expanded="true" on the control instead. The plugin will automatically toggle this attribute on the control based on whether or not the collapsible element has been opened or closed (via JavaScript, or because the user triggered another control element also tied to the same collapsible element). If the control element’s HTML element is not a button (e.g., an <a> or <div>), the attribute role="button" should be added to the element.

If your control element is targeting a single collapsible element – i.e. the data-target attribute is pointing to an id selector – you should add the aria-controls attribute to the control element containing the id of the collapsible element. Modern screen readers and similar assistive technologies make use of this attribute to provide users with additional shortcuts to navigate directly to the collapsible element itself.

Usage

The collapse plugin utilizes a few classes to handle the heavy lifting:

.collapse hides the content
.collapse.show shows the content
.collapsing is added when the transition starts, and removed when it finishes

Via data attributes

Just add data-toggle="collapse" and a data-target to the element to automatically assign control of a collapsible element. The data-target attribute accepts a CSS selector to apply the collapse to. Be sure to add the class collapse to the collapsible element. If you’d like it to default as open, add the additional class in.

To add accordion-like group management to a collapsible control, you may add the data attribute data-parent="#selector". Refer to the demo to see this in action.

Via JavaScript

Enable this manually with:

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        $('.collapse').collapse()

Options

Options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript. For data attributes, append the option name to data-, as in data-parent="".

Name	Type	Default	Description
parent	selector	false	If a selector is provided, then all collapsible elements under the specified parent will be closed when this collapsible item is shown. (similar to traditional accordion behavior - this is dependent on the `panel` class)
toggle	boolean	true	Toggles the collapsible element upon its invocation

Methods

Asynchronous methods and transitions

All API methods are asynchronous and start a transition. They return to the caller as soon as the transition is started but before it ends. In addition, a method call on a transitioning component will be ignored.

`.collapse(options)`

Activates your content as a collapsible element. Accepts an optional options object.

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        $('#myCollapsible').collapse({
          toggle: false
        })

`.collapse('toggle')`

Toggles a collapsible element to shown or hidden.

`.collapse('show')`

Shows a collapsible element.

`.collapse('hide')`

Hides a collapsible element.

`.collapse('dispose')`

Destroys an element’s collapse.

Events

Bootstrap’s collapse class exposes a few events for hooking into collapse functionality.

Event Type	Description
show.bs.collapse	This event fires immediately when the `show` instance method is called.
shown.bs.collapse	This event is fired when a collapse element has been made visible to the user (it will wait for CSS transitions to complete).
hide.bs.collapse	This event is fired immediately when the `hide` method has been called.
hidden.bs.collapse	This event is fired when a collapse element has been hidden from the user (it will wait for CSS transitions to complete).

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        $('#myCollapsible').on('hidden.bs.collapse', function () {
          // do something…
        })