jQuery UI Accordion activate

Question

I'm not getting how to do this, or if I can do this. I have a jQuery UI Accordion, multiple sections with each section containing multiple anchor tags each with a unique string id.

I'd like to be able to have the accordion open to where a particular element with a given id is. Like say id "item117". Can I use something like

$('#accordion').activate('activate','#item117');

or even

$('#accordion').activate('activate',117);

I've tried those and some variations but can't get it to go. In the case I was trying to get working, the accordion should've opened to the end of the second section.

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I'm still not getting this, so maybe I'm doing something else wrong as well. I've stripped it down to an example page here: http://www.ofthejungle.com/testaccordion.php Please have a look at it and its source.

Answer 1

have been over this too & found nice and universal solution
- emulate clicking the header of required item by its id

$('#header-of-item-258').click(); 

that works everytime and anywhere not just accordion