AccordionControl.SelectionUnit Property

Gets or sets whether an end-user can select subitems or both subitems and root items. This is a dependency property.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Accordion

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.Accordion.v24.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.Accordion

Declaration

C#

public SelectionUnit SelectionUnit { get; set; }

VB.NET

Public Property SelectionUnit As SelectionUnit

Property Value

Type	Description
SelectionUnit	A SelectionUnit enumeration value. The default is SelectionUnit.SubItemOrRootItem.

Available values:

Name	Description
SubItemOrRootItem	Both the root items and subitems can be selected.
SubItem	Only subitems can be selected.

Remarks

You can specify accordion item types an end-user can select.

Set the SelectionUnit property to:

• SelectionUnit.SubItem to allows selecting subitems only.
• SelectionUnit.SubItemOrRootItem to allow selecting both root items and subitems.

The following code sample demonstrates an AccordionControl that allows selecting subitems only:

XAML

<dxa:AccordionControl SelectionUnit="SubItem">
   <dxa:AccordionItem Header="Root Item" Glyph="{dx:DXImage Image=Image_32x32.png}"/>
   <dxa:AccordionItem Header="Root Item" Glyph="{dx:DXImage Image=Map_32x32.png}">
      <dxa:AccordionItem Header="SubItem" Glyph="{dx:DXImage Image=Map_16x16.png}"/>
      <dxa:AccordionItem Header="SubItem" Glyph="{dx:DXImage Image=Map_16x16.png}"/>
   </dxa:AccordionItem>
</dxa:AccordionControl>

The image below shows the result:

Related GitHub Examples

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XAML

how-to-bind-the-accordioncontrol-to-data-using-the-childrenselector-property-t596779/CS/ChildrenSelector/MainWindow.xaml#L23

<Border Margin="5" Grid.Column="0" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1">
    <dxa:AccordionControl Name="accordion" SelectionUnit="SubItem" ItemsSource="{Binding MyData.Categories }"
                          SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedItem}" ChildrenSelector="{StaticResource mySelector}">

wpf-accordion-bind-to-data-hierarchicaldatatemplate/CS/HierarchicalDataTemplate/MainWindow.xaml#L20

<Border Margin="5" Grid.Column="0" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1">
    <dxa:AccordionControl x:Name="accordion" SelectionUnit="SubItem"
                          ItemsSource="{Binding MyData.Categories }" SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedItem}">