Bootstrap collapse

How it works

The collapse JavaScript plugin is used to show and hide content. Buttons or anchors are used as triggers that are mapped to specific elements you toggle. Collapsing an element will animate the height from its current value to 0. Given how CSS handles animations, you cannot use padding on a .collapse element. Instead, use the class as an independent wrapping element.

Example

Click the buttons below to show and hide another element via class changes:

• .collapse hides content
• .collapsing is applied during transitions
• .collapse.show shows content

You can use a link with the href attribute, or a button with the data-coreui-target attribute. In both samples, the data-coreui-toggle="collapse"" is required.

<p class="d-inline-flex gap-1">
  <a class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-toggle="collapse" href="#collapseExample" role="button" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseExample">
    Link with href
  </a>
  <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-coreui-toggle="collapse" data-coreui-target="#collapseExample" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseExample">
    Button with data-coreui-target
  </button>
</p>
<div class="collapse" id="collapseExample">
  <div class="card card-body">
    Some placeholder content for the collapse component. This panel is hidden by default but revealed when the user activates the relevant trigger.
  </div>
</div>

Horizontal

The collapse plugin also supports horizontal collapsing. Add the .collapse-horizontal modifier class to transition the width instead of height and set a width on the immediate child element. Feel free to write your own custom Sass, use inline styles, or use our width utilities.

<p>
  <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-coreui-toggle="collapse" data-coreui-target="#collapseWidthExample" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="collapseWidthExample">
    Toggle width collapse
  </button>
</p>
<div style="min-height: 120px;">
  <div class="collapse collapse-horizontal" id="collapseWidthExample">
    <div class="card card-body" style="width: 300px;">
      This is some placeholder content for a horizontal collapse. It's hidden by default and shown when triggered.
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Multiple targets

A <button> or <a> can show and hide multiple elements by referencing them with a selector in its href or data-coreui-target attribute. Multiple <button> or <a> can show and hide an element if they each reference it with their href or data-coreui-target attribute

<p class="d-inline-flex gap-1">
  <a class="btn btn-primary" data-coreui-toggle="collapse" href="#multiCollapseExample1" role="button" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="multiCollapseExample1">Toggle first element</a>
  <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-coreui-toggle="collapse" data-coreui-target="#multiCollapseExample2" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="multiCollapseExample2">Toggle second element</button>
  <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" data-coreui-toggle="collapse" data-coreui-target=".multi-collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="multiCollapseExample1 multiCollapseExample2">Toggle both elements</button>
</p>
<div class="row">
  <div class="col">
    <div class="collapse multi-collapse" id="multiCollapseExample1">
      <div class="card card-body">
        Some placeholder content for the first collapse component of this multi-collapse example. This panel is hidden by default but revealed when the user activates the relevant trigger.
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="col">
    <div class="collapse multi-collapse" id="multiCollapseExample2">
      <div class="card card-body">
        Some placeholder content for the second collapse component of this multi-collapse example. This panel is hidden by default but revealed when the user activates the relevant trigger.
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Accessibility

Be sure to add aria-expanded to the control component. This attribute explicitly sends the current state of the collapsible element connected to the control to screen readers and related assistive technologies. If the collapsible part is closed by default, the attribute on the control element should have a value of aria-expanded="false". If you have set the collapsible element to be open by default using the show class, set aria-expanded="true" on the control alternatively. The plugin will automatically toggle this attribute on the control based on whether or not the collapsible element has been opened or closed (via JavaScript, or because the user triggered another control element also tied to the same collapsible element). If the control element’s HTML element is not a button (e.g., an <a> or <div>), the attribute role="button" should be added to the element.

If your control element is targeting a single collapsible element – i.e., the data-coreui-target attribute is pointing to an id selector – you should attach the aria-controls attribute to the control part, including the id of the collapsible element. Modern screen readers and related assistive technologies address this attribute to provide users with extra shortcuts to navigate directly to the collapsible element itself.

Note that CoreUI for Bootstrap’s current implementation does not cover the various optional keyboard interactions described in the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 accordion pattern - you will need to include these yourself with custom JavaScript.

Usage

The collapse plugin utilizes a few classes to handle the heavy lifting:

• .collapse hides the content
• .collapse.show shows the content
• .collapsing is added when the transition starts, and removed when it finishes

These classes can be found in _transitions.scss.

Via data attributes

Just add data-coreui-toggle="collapse" and a data-coreui-target to the element to automatically assign control of one or more collapsible elements. The data-coreui-target attribute accepts a CSS selector to apply the collapse to. Be sure to add the class collapse to the collapsible element. If you’d like it to default open, add the additional class show.

To add accordion-like group management to a collapsible area, add the data attribute data-coreui-parent="#selector". Refer to the demo to see this in action.

Via JavaScript

Enable manually with:

const collapseElementList = document.querySelectorAll('.collapse')
const collapseList = [...collapseElementList].map(collapseEl => new coreui.Collapse(collapseEl))

Options

As options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript, you can append an option name to data-coreui-, as in data-coreui-animation="{value}". Make sure to change the case type of the option name from “camelCase” to “kebab-case” when passing the options via data attributes. For example, use data-coreui-custom-class="beautifier" instead of data-coreui-customClass="beautifier".

As of CoreUI 4.2.0, all components support an experimental reserved data attribute data-coreui-config that can house simple component configuration as a JSON string. When an element has data-coreui-config='{"delay":0, "title":123}' and data-coreui-title="456" attributes, the final title value will be 456 and the separate data attributes will override values given on data-coreui-config. In addition, existing data attributes are able to house JSON values like data-coreui-delay='{"show":0,"hide":150}'.

Methods

Activates your content as a collapsible element. Accepts an optional options object.

You can create a collapse instance with the constructor, for example:

const bsCollapse = new coreui.Collapse('#myCollapse', {
  toggle: false
})

Events

CoreUI for Bootstrap’s collapse class exposes a few events for hooking into collapse functionality.

const myCollapsible = document.getElementById('myCollapsible')
myCollapsible.addEventListener('hidden.coreui.collapse', event => {
  // do something...
})

Customization

SASS variables

$transition-collapse:         height .35s ease;
$transition-collapse-width:   width .35s ease;

Classes

Collapse transition classes can be found in scss/_transitions.scss as these are shared across multiple components (collapse and accordion).

.collapse {
  &:not(.show) {
    display: none;
  }
}

.collapsing {
  height: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  @include transition($transition-collapse);

  &.collapse-horizontal {
    width: 0;
    height: auto;
    @include transition($transition-collapse-width);
  }
}