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== Purpose ==
The ''accordion'' (in Qt also known as tool box) provides a column of tabbed panels. Similar to tabs only a single item is shown at once.
 
== Example ==
 
== Guidelines ==
=== Is this the right control ===
* Use an accordion for content with mutually exclusive views. That might be a calculator with simple vs. scientific vs. statistical layout, or a digital vs. analog clock, for instance.
* Do not use an accordion to structure content by default. Rather use a list view with associated pages or [[Projects/Usability/HIG/TabControl|tabs]].
* Consider to replace the accordion by another control since KDE makes very rarely use of this type of navigation.
=== Behavior ===
* Do not mix the accordion with other types of navigation on the same level.
* Do not use more than one accordion in your application because it is clutter prone.
* Make sure that accordion contains of at least one panel.
* Do not add more than five panels to an accordion.
=== Appearance ===
* Each panel must contain a panel header with descriptive label.
* Do not use icons in panel headers.
== Implementation ==
 
[[Category:Usability]][[Category:Behavior]][[Category:Viewing_and_Navigation]][[Category:Grouping]]

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