Unless you specify the height of the accordion, it will grow; based on
the size of the first child.
<mx:Panel width="100%" height="25%">
<mx:Accordion id="optionsAccordion" width="100%" height="100%">
<vso:Form label="Accordion Entry 1" width="100%" />
-TH
--- In [email protected], "Keith Hughitt" <keith.hugh...@...>
wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to get an accordion to occupy a specified
relative
> height (e.g. 25% of the application) while ensuring that all accordion
> headers are visible?
>
> There are two methods that come pretty close. Both solutions behave
> exactly as desired when the content of the accordion's first child is
> small, however, they become problematic when there is a larger amount
of
> content there. (The accordion containers are default behavior is to
use
> a height equal to their first child:
>
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/containers/Accordion.html).
>
> The first method:
>
> <mx:Panel width="100%" height="25%">
> <mx:Accordion id="optionsAccordion" width="100%">
> <vso:Form label="Accordion Entry 1" width="100%" />
> .
> .
> .
>
> In this case, things work fine when the content of the first accordion
> section is small, but when it is larger than the desired height, it
> "pushes" the panel size up so that it may become very large (e.g. 60%
> instead of 25% of the screen).
>
>
> For the other method:
>
> <mx:Panel width="100%" height="{this.height / 4}">
> <mx:Accordion id="optionsAccordion" width="100%">
> <vso:Form label="Accordion Entry 1" width="100%" />
> .
> .
> .
>
> ...the height of the panel containing the accordion always uses the
> correct size, however, the accordion itself may be much larger causing
a
> scrollbar to appear within the panel, and some of the accordion
section
> headers to be pushed down.
>
> Originally, I thought the issue was related to how the Panels behaved
> (see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/137291),
but
> after some further testing, it appears to be specifically related to
how
> the accordions behave.
>
> Any Ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
