30 jQuery Accordion Menus, Tutorials And Best Examples

Accordion menus are used widely in navigation, sliding, minimizing and maximizing content. Such accordions practically are expandable whenever needed, you can really save some space and be able to show a lot of information using this technique.
Yes, and of course such sliding content always is great from design point of view and giving your visitor unique experience while he is visiting. Great isn’t it? – here you will find a lot of customizable plugins, tutorials helping you to understand accordions at all as well as great examples, where this technique has been implemented in successful sites!

1. Yup, Yet another JQuery Accordion Plugin

Simple free jQuery accordion plugin. Available in 4 versions. Check out the tutorial how to use it, get the code, and download all the source files. Some of the new features:

• Built according to the JQuery Plugin pattern
• No more need for menus to have an ID
• An ‘active’ class is now added to each toggle that has an open panel below it
• Panels that hold other things than lists. You can now add anything
• Nested accordions

2. jQuery UI Demo

See examples of different use of accordion, see how to set it up, get the source and read about Options, Events, Theming.

3. Stupid Simple jQuery Accordion Menu

Very detailed tutorial about including jQuery in your mockup, creating the JavaScript, creating CSS and HTML.  You can also view the demo and download all files.

4. Making Accordion Menu Using jQuery

In this post, you’ll see two examples of accordion. First menu’s visibility gets toggled on clicking on the header while the another menu’s visibility gets toggled when mouse is moved over it. See the tutorial and download source files as well.

5. jQuery Accordion Menu

Step by step tutorial that will take you through the creation of a jQuery accordion menu. Of course, you can view the demo and download source files.

6. jQuery Examples – Horizontal Accordion

Learn how to create easy horizontal accordion menu.

7. jQuery – Horizontal Accordion

This jQuery plugin allows you to easily transform any unordered list into a horizontal menu. Explore tutorial, see documentation and different examples of use here.

8. State-Saving jQuery Accordion Menu Without Reloading the Page

Learn how to create tweaked accordion menu, in which you can bookmark and re-access sections without re-clicking on them. View demo and download source too.

9. Accordion Menu Screencast Tutorial

Learn how to build a simple, unobtrusive, accordion style menu using basic events and animations.

10. Regular and Hover Accordion Menus

See example of hover accordion menu, learn how to create it and download the plugins.

11. Haccordion – Simple Horizontal Accordion Plugin for jQuery

Simple and fast plugin for creating simple horizontal accordion menus. Demo included.

12. Exactly How to Create a Custom jQuery Accordion

The plan for this tutorial is to show how to create an accordion using the jQuery UI function, then create one using some custom coding. You’ll be using a blog sidebar as an example. View demo and get the source.

13. Simple Accordion w/ CSS and jQuery 

Detailed tutorial how to create great looking accordion menu. You can also check out Toggle tutorial. View demo.

14. Accordion Madness

One of the options how to create accordion menu.

15. A Simple and Beautiful jQuery Accordion Tutorial

Learn how to create the well-known JavaScript accordion with the most minimal amount of HTML, CSS, JS and of course, with a beautiful interface as well. Check out demo and download source.

16. Slide Out and Drawer Effect

This tutorial will walk through how to create your own simple plugin, and then replicate the Apple downloads drawers using the very excellent Accordion plugin. Demo and code included.

17. Create Simplest Accordion Menu using jQuery

Another simple tutorial how to create standard accordion menu. View demo and download files.

18. TinyAccordion JavaScript Accordion

This lightweight (1.2 KB) JavaScript accordion can easily be customized to integrate with any website. It now includes multi-level support, a parameter to determine whether only one panel can be expanded concurrently, and a hide/show all toggle. For more information visit leigeber.com.

19. Javascript Accordion Menu Wizard

Javascript Accordion Menu is an image based site navigation menu. Scriptocean Accordion Menu Wizard supports horizontal and vertical accordion menus. Download here.

20. Horizontal JavaScript Accordion 1kb

This versatile 1kb horizontal accordion script can be used for menus, images, presentation content and more.

Examples

21. Alex Cohaniuc Portfolio

22. Deluge Studios

23. Rzmota

24. Screenfluent

25. Artisanmedia

26. Exotics RTC

27. Two Chaps

28. Ten 18 Photography

29. We Are Lighthouse

30. DJ Eric C

Extra: Grid Accordion – $8

Perfect for a grid gallery. The usual worry about displaying multiple images at the same time is eliminated here because of its smart code structure. Seen in Code Canyon, a marketplace of Envato where all sold items are topnotch in quality because before they even get to be showcased, experts see to it that products are up to standards. Plus very warm support from the coder himself/herself!

45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins

jQuery Sliders

1) Slider Gallery- A similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site. This ‘product slider’ is similar to a straight forward gallery, except that there is a slider to navigate the items, i.e. the bit the user controls to view the items. Simple stuff.

• Live Demo: Here

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2) Accessible slider- Illustrations and code samples showing how to make a slider UI control accessible to those who aren’t running JavaScript or CSS.

• Live Demo: Here

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jQuery Manipulating Images

3) crop, labelOver and pluck-Crop-Gives your visitors the power to crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only. Also there are 2 other plugins: LabelOver and Pluck.

• Live Demo Of Crop: Here
• Live Demo of LabelOver: Here

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4) Semitransparent rollovers -A simple method for enabling semi-transparent rollovers which actually work on IE 6.

• Live Demo Of Crop: Here

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5) Creating A Sliding Image Puzzle Plug-In- Creates sliding-image puzzles based on containers that have images. Running the demo page we get this output in the image below:

• Live Demo: Here

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jQuery Navigation Menus

6) Digg Header- This is a replica of the Digg header. Fluid width (but only to a point!), drop down menus, attractive search, easy to change colors… There is a lot of smarts in a small place in this example!

• Live Demo: Here
• Download Code: From Here

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7) IconDock- a jQuery JavaScript library plugin that allows you to create a menu on your web like the Mac OS X operating system dock effect one.

• Live Demo: Here
• Download Code: From Here

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jQuery Accordions

8 ) Horizontal Accordion- This plugin provides some simple options to alter the accordion look and behavior.

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9) HoverAccordion- A jQuery Plugin for no-click two-level menus.

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jQuery Image Viewer

10) Step Carousel Viewer- Displays images or even rich HTML by side scrolling them left or right. Users can step to any specific content on demand.

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11) Featured Content Glider- You can showcase new or featured contents on your page, by turning ordinary pieces of HTML content into an interactive, “glide in” slideshow. Supports two different display modes- “manual” and “slideshow.”

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jQuery Charts

12) jQuery + jFlot - Plots, Canvas and Charts.

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13) Accessible charts using canvas and jQuery – A proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element by using jQuery to provides several types of editable graphs, such as Pie, Line, Area, and Bar.

• Live Demo: Here

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jQuery Editors

14) Small Rich Text Editor - Small footprint, Cross-browser, Ajax Image upload, HTML Cleanup with PHP back-end rich text editor with all basic Rich Text functionality included.

• Live Demo: Here
• Download Code: From Here

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15)markItUp! Universal markup editor- This plugin allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented. Worth Checking!

• Live Demo: Here
• Download Code: From Here

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jQuery Flash Plugins

16) jQuery Flash Plugin- A jQuery plugin for embedding Flash movies.

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17) jMP3- jMP3 is an easy way make any MP3 playable directly on most any web site (to those using Flash & JS),
using the sleek Flash Single MP3 Player & jQuery.

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18) jQuery Media Plugin- It can be used to embed virtually any media type, including Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player, MP3, Silverlight, PDF and more, into a web page.

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jQuery Tabs

You can use the a href=”http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs”>jUI/Tabsto create more dynamic tab functionality.
19) jQuery Tabs- Typical tabbing structure which degrade nicely without JavaScript enabled.

• Live Demo: Here

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jQuery LightBox

20) Fancy Box- Kinda different image zooming script for those who want something fresh. Features: Automatically scales large images to fit in window, adds a nice drop shadow under the full-size image, image sets to group related images and navigate through them

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21) Thickbox Plus- Click an Image to view a ThickBox image that is resized when your window is resized to fit the window.

• Live Demo: Here
• Download Code: From Here

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jQuery Datagrid plugins

22) Flexi Grid- Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content. Similar in concept with the Ext Grid only its pure jQuery love, which makes it light weight and follows the jQuery mantra of running with the least amount of configuration.

• Live Demo: Here
• Download Code: From Here

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23) Query Grid 3.1- Datagird plugin for jQuery, where the user can manipulate the number of requested pages with adding, updating, deleting row data.

• Live Demo: Here
• Download Code: From Here

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jQuery Field Manipulation

24) FaceBook Like – jQuery and autosuggest Search Engine- This autosuggest search engine is inspired from facebook for design,
use jQuery as ajax framework and BSN Autosuggest libs.

• Live Demo: Here

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25) Masked Input Plugin- It allows a user to more easily enter fixed width input where you would like them to enter the data in a certain format (dates,phone numbers, etc).

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jQuery with cool animation Effects

26) jQuery Enchant- Devoted to rich effects. It already features all effects you know from scriptaculous/interface, as well as many more great additions: color animations, class animations and highly configurable effects.

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27) EasyDrag jQuery Plugin- Add the ability to drag and drop almost any DOM element without much effort. So it’s simple to use and you can also attach handlers both to the drag and to the drop events.

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28) Simple Effects Plugins- Nice animation effects that can easily toggle, hide, show, fade, slide elements.

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29) Slide out and drawer effect- A demonstration of accordion effect in action, where the mouse settles on the title of the ’section’ and the associated links are exposed. What makes this effect particularly cool, is that the drawers maintain a fixed height and slide between restricted area.

• Live Demo: Here

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jQuery Worth Checking Plugins

30) crop, labelOver and pluck- How to create a drop cap and apply it to every paragraph in a DIV.

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31) Style Author Comments Differently with jQuery- Nice custom styling applied to comments left by the author.

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32) Creating a fading header- A simple example using jQuery and CSS that shows you how to create the fading header technique.

• Live Demo: Here

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33) Coda Bubble- A demonstration of the ‘puff’ popup bubble effect as seen over the download link on the Coda web site

• Live Demo: Here

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34) Another In-Place Editor- This is a script that turns any element, or an array of elements into an AJAX in place editor using one line of code.

• Live Demo: Here

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35) jQuery Taconite- The jQuery Taconite Plugin allows you to easily make multiple DOM updates using the results of a single AJAX call. It processes an XML command document that contain instructions for updating the DOM.

• Live Demo: Here

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jQuery Web Applications

36) GenFavicon- A cool online generator that creats little favicons used throughout the web. You have the option of either specifying a URL for the image you’d like to convert or uploading it to the site for processing.

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37) WriteMaps- WriteMaps provides an easy-to-use interface for creating, editing, and sharing your sitemaps.

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Great Resources for jQuery Inspiration and How to’s

jQuery Google Group
Learning jQuery
jQuery Tutorials for Designers
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50+ Amazing Jquery Examples

Menu

1) LavaLamp

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2) jQuery Collapse -A plugin for jQuery to collapse content of div container.

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3) A Navigation Menu- Unordered List with anchors and nested lists, also demonstrates how to add a second level list.

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4) SuckerFish Style

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Tabs

5) jQuery UI Tabs / Tabs 3 – Simple jQuery based tab-navigation

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6) TabContainer Theme – JQuery style fade animation that runs as the user navigates between selected tabs.

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Accordion

7 ) jQuery Accordion
Demo

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8) Simple JQuery Accordion menu

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SlideShows

9) jQZoom- allows you to realize a small magnifier window close to the image or images on your web page easily.

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10) Image/Photo Gallery Viewer- allows you to take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. It allows you to style it how ever you want and add as many images at you want.

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Transition Effects

11) InnerFade – It’s designed to fade you any element inside a container in and out.

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12) Easing Plugin- A jQuery plugin from GSGD to give advanced easing options. Uses Robert Penners easing equations for the transitions

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13) Highlight Fade

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14) jQuery Cycle Plugin- have very intersting transition effects like image cross-fading and cycling.

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jQuery Carousel

15) Riding carousels with jQuery – is a jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order.
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Color Picker

16) Farbtastic – is a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page through JavaScript.
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17) jQuery Color Picker

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LightBox

18) jQuery ThickBox – is a webpage user interface dialog widget written in JavaScript.
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19) SimpleModal Demos – its goal is providing developers with a cross-browser overlay and container that will be populated with content provided to SimpleModal.
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20) jQuery lightBox Plugin – simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery´s selector.
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iframe

21) JQuery iFrame Plugin – If javascript is turned off, it will just show a link to the content. Here is the code in action…

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Form Validation

22) Validation – A fairly comprehensive set of form validation rules. The plugin also dynamically creates IDs and ties them to labels when they are missing.
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23) Ajax Form Validation – Client side validation in a form using jQuery. The username will check with the server whether the chosen name is a) valid and b) available.
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24) jQuery AlphaNumeric – Allows you to prevent your users from entering certain characters inside the form fields.

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Form Elements

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25) jquery.Combobox – is an unobtrusive way of creating a HTML type combobox from a existing HTML Select element(s), a Demo is here.

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26) jQuery Checkbox – Provides for the styling of checkboxes that degrades nicely when javascript is dsiabled.

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27) File Style Plugin for jQuery -File Style plugin enables you to use image as browse button. You can also style filename field as normal textfield using css.

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Star Rating

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28) Simple Star Rating System
29)Half-Star Rating Plugin

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ToolTips

30) Tooltip Plugin Examples – A fancy tooltip with some custom positioning, a tooltip with an extra class for nice shadows, and some extra content. You can find a demo here.

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31) The jQuery Tooltip

Tables Plugins

32) Zebra Tables Demo -using jQuery to do zebra striping and row hovering, very NICE!!
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33) Table Sorter Plugin - for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. It can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.

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34) AutoScroll for jQuery -allows for hotspot scrolling of web pages

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35) Scrollable HTML table plugin- used to convert tables in ordinary HTML into scrollable ones. No additional coding is necessary.
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Draggable Droppables And Selectables

36) Sortables - You won’t believe how easy this code to make it easy to sort several lists, mix and match the lists, and send the information to a database.

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37) Draggables and droppables- A good example of using jQuery plugin iDrop to drag and drop tree view nodes.

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Style Switcher

38) Switch stylesheets with jQuery- allows your visitors to choose which stylesheet they would like to view your site with. It uses cookies so that when they return to the site or visit a different page they still get their chosen stylesheet. A Demo is here.

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Rounded Corners

39) jQuery Corner Demo

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40) JQuery Curvy Corners- A plugin for rounded corners with smooth, anti-aliased corners.

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Must See jQuery Examples

41) jQuery Air – A passenger management interface for charter flights. A great Tutorial that you will enjoy.
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42) HeatColor -allows you to assign colors to elements, based on a value derived from that element. The derived value is compared to a range of values, it can find the min and max values of the desired elements, or you can pass them in manually.
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43) Simple jQuery Examples -This page contains a growing set of Query powered script examples in "pagemod" format. The code that is displayed when clicking "Source" is exactly the same Javascript code that powers each example. Feel free to save a copy of this page and use the example.

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44) Date Picker -A flexible unobtrusive calendar component for jQuery.
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45) ScrollTo -A plugin for jQuery to scroll to a certain object in the page

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46) 3-Column Splitter Layout -this is a 3-column layout using nested splitters. The left and right columns are a semi-fixed width; the center column grows or shrinks. Page scroll bars have been removed since all the content is inside the splitter, and the splitter is anchored to the bottom of the window using an onresize event handler.

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47) Pager jQuery -Neat little jQuery plugin for a a paginated effect.

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48) Select box manipulation

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49) Cookie Plugin for jQuery
50) JQuery BlockUI Plugin -lets you simulate synchronous behavior when using AJAX, without locking the browser. When activated, it will prevent user activity with the page (or part of the page) until it is deactivated. BlockUI adds elements to the DOM to give it both the appearance and behavior of blocking user interaction.

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