All right, so now we want to style these buttons, these icon buttons, position them.
We want to give functionality to them so we can expand and contract these fake cues.
So we have a class of fake cue dash toggle on the button.
And obviously, we don't want to show the Chevron if it's expanded and we don't want to show the X if
it's if it's not expanded.
So we're going to have to deal with that.
But let's just do some basic stuff here first.
Like the background color I'm going to set to transparent and take away the border set.
Here's HTML code
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/5.15.3/css/all.min.css" integrity="sha512-iBBXm8fW90+nuLcSKlbmrPcLa0OT92xO1BIsZ+ywDWZCvqsWgccV3gFoRBv0z+8dLJgyAHIhR35VZc2oM/gI1w==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./style.css">
<title>FAQ Collapse</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Frequently Asked Questions</h1>
<div class="faq-container">
<div class="faq active">
<h3 class="faq-title">
Why shouldn't we trust atoms?
</h3>
<p class="faq-text">
They make up everything
</p>
<button class="faq-toggle">
<i class="fas fa-chevron-down"></i>
<i class="fas fa-times"></i>
</button>
</div>
<div class="faq">
<h3 class="faq-title">
What do you call someone with no body and no nose?
</h3>
<p class="faq-text">
Nobody knows.
</p>
<button class="faq-toggle">
<i class="fas fa-chevron-down"></i>
<i class="fas fa-times"></i>
</button>
</div>
<div class="faq">
<h3 class="faq-title">
What's the object-oriented way to become wealthy?
</h3>
<p class="faq-text">
Inheritance.
</p>
<button class="faq-toggle">
<i class="fas fa-chevron-down"></i>
<i class="fas fa-times"></i>
</button>
</div>
<div class="faq">
<h3 class="faq-title">
How many tickles does it take to tickle an octopus?
</h3>
<p class="faq-text">
Ten-tickles!
</p>
<button class="faq-toggle">
<i class="fas fa-chevron-down"></i>
<i class="fas fa-times"></i>
</button>
</div>
<div class="faq">
<h3 class="faq-title">
What is: 1 + 1?
</h3>
<p class="faq-text">
Depends on who are you asking.
</p>
<button class="faq-toggle">
<i class="fas fa-chevron-down"></i>
<i class="fas fa-times"></i>
</button>
</div>
</div>
<script src="./script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Here's My Css code
@import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Ubuntu&display=swap");
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
font-family: "Ubuntu", sans-serif;
background-color: #f0f0f0;
}
h1 {
margin: 50px 0 30px;
text-align: center;
}
.faq-container {
max-width: 600px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.faq {
background-color: transparent;
border: 1px solid #9fa4a8;
border-radius: 10px;
margin: 20px 0;
padding: 30px;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
transition: 0.3s ease;
}
.faq.active {
background-color: #fff;
box-shadow: 0 3px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1), 0 3px 6px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
}
.faq.active::before,
.faq.active::after {
content: "\f075";
font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free";
color: #2ecc71;
font-size: 7rem;
position: absolute;
opacity: 0.2;
top: 20px;
left: 20px;
z-index: 0;
}
.faq.active::before {
color: #3498db;
top: -10px;
left: -30px;
transform: rotateY(180deg);
}
.faq-title {
margin: 0 35px 0 0;
}
.faq-text {
display: none;
margin: 30px 0 0;
}
.faq.active .faq-text {
display: block;
}
.faq-toggle {
background-color: transparent;
border: 0;
border-radius: 50%;
cursor: pointer;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
font-size: 16px;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
right: 30px;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
}
.faq-toggle:focus {
outline: 0;
}
.faq-toggle .fa-times {
display: none;
}
.faq.active .faq-toggle .fa-times {
color: #fff;
display: block;
}
.faq.active .faq-toggle .fa-chevron-down {
display: none;
}
.faq.active .faq-toggle {
background-color: #9fa4a8;
}
Here's My JavaScript code
const toggles = document.querySelectorAll(".faq-toggle");
toggles.forEach((toggle) => {
toggle.addEventListener("click", () => {
toggle.parentNode.classList.toggle("active");
});
});
Here's ouput
Top comments (12)
Great job!
Now go read about
<summary>and<details>and realise it is even easier than you thought!See if you can create the same with native HTML elements as you won’t need any JavaScript and it will be accessible for people with disabilities too (as at the moment your example isn’t).
Nice design, Keep going 💪
keep in mind, details are not supported in IE, if you want to support IE, that is.
Yes quite right I should have said that. To be fair they do fall back quite gracefully but even so great point! ❤️
OP's work is accessible. It could benefit from some visible focus styling though.
The button has no text that a screen reader can access, it is missing relevant aria attributes, it is positioned after the section that expands in the DOM so the read order is incorrect etc. And those are things I can spot on a phone without actually testing it.
It certainly is not accessible in its current format.
I didn’t want to list the accessibility issues as OP is doing well and I didn’t want to put them off but I thought I better point them out if you think that is an accessible pattern as I wouldn’t want you using it in production.
Hence why I suggest summary and details as you don’t need to know all of the ARIA etc
Yep! No JS required:
Building an Accordion with only CSS
Nathan Kallman ・ Jul 1 '20 ・ 5 min read
This is directly from a Udemy course geared toward learning JS & CSS. It was a great course, and OP should have referenced the training.
OP presents this code as if it were their own.
Great job....
ThnkQ 🥰
Well done. A FAQ is extremely helpful for optimizing SEO content. It'll be more engaging if it has animation effects.
Also learn to spell title right!
Sure sir