Replacement for Spry Panels

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March 12, 2025
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Recently took a new role where one of the sites we manage use spry collapsable panels. I know spry is legacy and unsupported at this point, but I need some way to add/modify these panels as there are no plans to replace or upgrade the site in the near future.

Suggestions?

Correct answer Nancy OShea

It's an interactive website, not a document reposititory. I'm not really looking for a way to completely alter the experience the users currently have just to make it more convenient for me.

Accordion Panels are fairly simple to construct from plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You don't need fancy plugins for this.

https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_accordion.asp

BenPleysier

Community Expert

This may help: adobe/Spry: Spry is a JavaScript-based framework that enables the rapid development of Ajax-powered web pages.

If you want to change as per @Jon Fritz , then Accordion · Bootstrap v5.3

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Jon Fritz

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Spry was removed from DW back in 2012.

If you still have your activation info from your old software (CS5.5 or 6) you should still be able to activate and use it. Use legacy software for legacy sites that have no updates planned.

In DW CC, there's no interface for working with Spry. You'd have to do it manually, in Code View. There are no plug-ins that I know of to add Spry back to DWCC. Not that it would be a very good idea, Spry wasn't mobile friendly, and the majority of the internet is viewed from mobile devices now.

A final alternative would be to bite the bullet and update the site using current methods, knowing that at some point, those methods may not be current methods either.

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ArisugawaAuthor

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>If you still have your activation info from your old software (CS5.5 or 6).
Wasn't my build. I think it was created using CS3, but I have the most current version of DW. I can see the code when I view the page and I can modify the contents of existing panels. But some options, such as whether the panel opens collapsed doesn't appear to be visible to me. Someone might have a copy of CS3 around, but I'd have to install it and from I understand it's not possible to activate CS3 any longer.

>Not that it would be a very good idea, Spry wasn't mobile friendly, and the majority of the internet is viewed from mobile devices now.

That isn't a concern. The site is internal, meant for PC users and not for mobile users.

>A final alternative would be to bite the bullet and update the site using current methods, knowing that at some point, those methods may not be current methods either.

I'm going to admit some ignorance here - how does one create collapsable panels with current methods?

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Ben M

Community Expert

Hmmm, okay. I'm not opposed to reconstructing pages provided the Bootstrap function isn't overly complex. If it behaves similarly for the user (click to open/close information), then that's a viable solution. I'll look into that.

What exactly is the site like? Being that it's internal I wouldn't recommend sharing a link publicly, but there may be other alternative options for internal resources that might be better than managing an internal website.

When I hear internal the first thought that comes to mind are the old sharepoint sites which can be replicated on a modern Teams experience if you are in a org using Microsoft. Or there are potentially other alternatives such as Notion that might be an alternative depending on what you need to manage. Especially since this is not a priority for being redone if it cannot be effectively managed then the process itself becomes the cost factor and other alternatives for an internal site should be presented and evaluated.

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