Build a responsive, animated, accessible accordion that looks pretty good
Accordions are a pretty common thing that we find on websites these days, but they’re often… a little bit lacking, either with awkward animations, or a complete lack of animations, and sometimes just looking pretty ugly.
I recently came across an awesome codepen by Zed Dash that looked fantastic, and I thought it would be the perfect starting place to creating a responsive, and importantly, very good looking accordion that could help add a little delight to a users experience with a site.
🔗 Links
✅ Zed Dash’s original codepen: https://codepen.io/z-/pen/OBPJKK
✅ The final code: https://gith…
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Chapters (19)
Introduction
0:35
The inspiration for what I’m going to build
1:17
Building things out the right way
4:30
The HTML
15:22
The SVG icons
19:54
The generic CSS stuff
21:38
Setting up the panel styles
24:30
Styling the icons
29:04
Setting up the size of the panels and fixing up the button
39:43
Dealing with the overflowing text
40:52
The JavaScript - adding the interactions
50:11
Adding the animations
52:30
Fixing up the typography and text positioning
56:10
Making the text more readable
57:49
Adding prefers-reduced-motion
59:59
Adding a background to the titles
1:06:42
Making it responsive
1:12:27
Improving the keyboard interactions
1:15:43
Using containment
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