Selecting Custom Menu Header

Menu 1

To programmatically change which elements are the panel headers after initial setup:
$("selector").accordion("option", "header", "CSS / jQuery selector");

Menu 2

This example uses p elements as the headers. The ability to change what element is used for the headers allows for more formatting options.

Code

<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

        <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/cupertino/jquery-ui.css" type="text/css"/>
    
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
        
        <script type="text/javascript">
            // $(function() { code }); executes the contained code when the DOM is finished loading
            $(function()
    	    {
    	        // Call the accordion method on the element with the id example
    	        $("#example").accordion(
                {
                    header: "p" // Use p elements inside #example as the headers
                }); 
    	    });
        </script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <div id="example">
            <p>Menu 1</p>
            <h3>This is some placeholder content in an h3 element.</h3>
            <p>Menu 2</p>
            <h3>This is more placeholder content in a second h3 element.
                It is coded directly below an p element which jQuery's
                accordion method turns into the header you see above this content.
            </h3>
            <p>Code</p>
            <pre> *** This is what you are viewing *** </pre>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>