title: Looking for a JQuery plug-in similar to Accordion, but that allows multiple sections open at once
body: <p>I am looking to have a UI element similar to that offered by the JQUERY Accordion plug-in, but allowing the user to keep multiple sections open at once.</p>
  
  <p>The documentation has the following to say, and suggests an alternate approach with a code snippet (see below). That is great and all, and the code they provide basically works, but I find myself recreating a lot of things built into the plugin like switching out the classes and applying the themes manually in the XHTML.   </p>
  
  <p><strong>My Questions:</strong>   </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Before I get too far along the manual route, does anyone know of a similar plug-in, or mod to this one to allow multiple panels to be open at once?  </p></li>
  <li><p>Is there a another common name for an accordion-like control that allows multiple open panels that I could use to Google for other options?</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Here is the part I referenced earlier from the documentation, if it matters.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><strong>NOTE: If you want multiple sections open at once, don't use an accordion</strong></p>
    
    <p>An accordion doesn't allow more than one content panel to be open at the same time, and it takes a lot of effort to do that. If you are looking for a widget that allows more than one content panel to be open, don't use this. Usually it can be written with a few lines of jQuery instead, something like this:</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>jQuery(document).ready(function(){
      $('.accordion .head').click(function() {
          $(this).next().toggle();
          return false;
      }).next().hide();
  });
  
  Or animated:
  
  jQuery(document).ready(function(){
      $('.accordion .head').click(function() {
          $(this).next().toggle('slow');
          return false;
      }).next().hide();
  });
  </code></pre>