Objective : Build tabs tabs or pills with the effect of folding and folding like an accordion. At the same time, you can do it by using standard tools of the bootstrap, without adding your own scripts or adding other people's.
Decided in three stages . The code at the end of the answer shows the results of all three stages.
1) We will build tablets, because they are brighter :) We are starting to build not from tablets to accordion, but from accordion to tablets. We take from the description of the bootstrap an example with an accordion and rearrange the code fragments so that we get two of the three panels. In the top we collect all three headings, and in the bottom - the texts to them.
2) We cross headers
<div class="panel-heading" role="tab" id="headingTwo"> <h4 class="panel-title"> <a class="collapsed" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapseTwo" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseTwo"> Collapsible Group Item #2 </a> </h4> </div>
with pills from another bootstrap example
<li role="presentation"><a href="#profile" aria-controls="profile" role="tab" data-toggle="tab">Profile</a></li>
and get
<li role="presentation" id="headingTwo"> <a class="collapsed" role="tab" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapseTwo" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseTwo"> Collapsible Group Item #2 </a> </li>
3) To make the active tablet stand out in blue, you need to attach class="active" and data-toggle="tab" . The first attribute refers to the item in the <li> list, and the second attribute refers to the link within this item. But the link already has data-toggle="collapse" . Therefore, we assign both remaining attributes to a list item.
Result
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-1q8mTJOASx8j1Au+a5WDVnPi2lkFfwwEAa8hDDdjZlpLegxhjVME1fgjWPGmkzs7" crossorigin="anonymous"> <style> h3 { margin-top: 0.2em; } .row { margin-top: 2em; } </style> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-1"><h3>1)</h3></div> <div class="col-xs-11"> <div class="panel-group" id="accordion1" role="tablist" aria-multiselectable="true"> <div class="panel panel-default"> <div class="panel-heading" role="tab" id="headingOne1"> <h4 class="panel-title"> <a role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion1" href="#collapseOne1" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne1"> Item #1 </a> </h4> </div> <div class="panel-heading" role="tab" id="headingTwo1"> <h4 class="panel-title"> <a class="collapsed" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion1" href="#collapseTwo1" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseTwo1"> Item #2 </a> </h4> </div> <div class="panel-heading" role="tab" id="headingThree1"> <h4 class="panel-title"> <a class="collapsed" role="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion1" href="#collapseThree1" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseThree1"> Item #3 </a> </h4> </div> </div> <div class="panel panel-default"> <div id="collapseOne1" class="panel-collapse collapse in" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingOne1"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> <div id="collapseTwo1" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingTwo1"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> <div id="collapseThree1" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingThree1"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!--row--> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-1"><h3>2)</h3></div> <div class="col-xs-11"> <ul class="nav nav-pills" role="tablist"> <li role="presentation" id="headingOne2"> <a role="tab" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion2" href="#collapseOne2" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne2"> Item #1 </a> </li> <li role="presentation" id="headingTwo2"> <a class="collapsed" role="tab" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion2" href="#collapseTwo2" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseTwo2"> Item #2 </a> </li> <li role="presentation" id="headingThree2"> <a class="collapsed" role="tab" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion2" href="#collapseThree2" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseThree2"> Item #3 </a> </li> </ul> <div class="panel-group" id="accordion2" role="tablist" aria-multiselectable="true"> <div class="panel panel-default"> <div id="collapseOne2" class="panel-collapse collapse in" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingOne2"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> <div id="collapseTwo2" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingTwo2"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> <div id="collapseThree2" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingThree2"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!--row--> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-1"><h3>3)</h3></div> <div class="col-xs-11"> <ul class="nav nav-pills" role="tablist"> <li role="presentation" data-toggle="tab" class="active" id="headingOne3"> <a role="tab" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion3" href="#collapseOne3" aria-expanded="true" aria-controls="collapseOne3"> Item #1 </a> </li> <li role="presentation" data-toggle="tab" id="headingTwo"> <a class="collapsed" role="tab" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion3" href="#collapseTwo" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseTwo"> Item #2 </a> </li> <li role="presentation" data-toggle="tab" id="headingThree"> <a class="collapsed" role="tab" data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion3" href="#collapseThree" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseThree"> Item #3 </a> </li> </ul> <div class="panel-group" id="accordion3" role="tablist" aria-multiselectable="true"> <div class="panel panel-default"> <div id="collapseOne3" class="panel-collapse collapse in" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingOne3"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> <div id="collapseTwo" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingTwo"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> <div id="collapseThree" class="panel-collapse collapse" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="headingThree"> <div class="panel-body"> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> <p>Anim pariatur cliche reprehenderit...</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!--row--> </div><!--container--> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-0mSbJDEHialfmuBBQP6A4Qrprq5OVfW37PRR3j5ELqxss1yVqOtnepnHVP9aJ7xS" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
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