Bootstrap: Collapse other sections when one is expanded

Question

I am making a Rails app, and am trying to achieve a particular functionality relating to Twitter\'s Bootstrap collapse. Bear with me as I explain it.

I currently hav

Answer 1

If you don't want to change your markup, this function does the trick:

jQuery('button').click( function(e) {
    jQuery('.collapse').collapse('hide');
});

Whenever a BUTTON is clicked, all sections become collapsed. Then bootstrap opens the one you selected.