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Can I apply Bootstrap's Accordion or Alert styles to HTML details and summary elements?


My projects use Bootstrap and most of the time without any Javascript because I only need the styling. Now I have a project that needs something like their Accordion which needs Javascript to work. However there is a standard <details> HTML tag that can do that. The problem is I cannot really apply Accordion styling to it.

This is my best attempt so far but the accordion-header simply wraps all the body as well:

<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<div class="accordion">
    <details class="accordion-item">
        <summary class="">
            <div class="accordion-header">
                Title
            </div>
        </summary>

        <div class="accordion-body">
            <p>This is the body</p>
        </div>
    </details>
</div>

An alternative would be somehow making the summary look like an .alert.


Solution

  • I'm not exactly sure what you meant by the header wrapping the body, but putting the accordion-button class on the title element gets you close. The icon doesn't flip, though. That would require JavaScript or a custom CSS solution.

    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    
    <div class="accordion m-4">
      <details class="accordion-item">
        <summary class="accordion-button">
          <div class="accordion-header">
            Title
          </div>
        </summary>
    
        <div class="accordion-body">
          <p>This is the body</p>
        </div>
      </details>
    </div>


    For Bootstrap 5.2+ where Accordion CSS variables are supported, you can add these CSS so the arrow changes as user opens/closes it:

    details.accordion-item:not([open]) .accordion-button {
        background-color: var(--bs-accordion-bg);
    }
    
    details.accordion-item:not([open]) .accordion-button::after {
        background-image: var(--bs-accordion-btn-active-icon);
        transform: unset;
    }
    
    details.accordion-item[open] .accordion-button::after {
        background-image: var(--bs-accordion-btn-icon);
        transform: var(--bs-accordion-btn-icon-transform);
    }
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    
    <div class="accordion m-4">
      <details class="accordion-item">
        <summary class="accordion-button">
          <div class="accordion-header">
            Title
          </div>
        </summary>
    
        <div class="accordion-body">
          <p>This is the body</p>
        </div>
      </details>
    </div>