How to make a Bootstrap accordion collapse when clicking the header div?

Solution 1:

All you need to do is to to use...

• data-toggle="collapse"
• data-target="#ElementToExpandOnClick"

...on the element you want to click to trigger the collapse/expand effect.

The element with data-toggle="collapse" will be the element to trigger the effect. The data-target attribute indicates the element that will expand when the effect is triggered.

Optionally you can set the data-parent if you want to create an accordion effect instead of independent collapsible, e.g.:

• data-parent="#accordion"

I would also add the following CSS to the elements with data-toggle="collapse" if they aren't <a> tags, e.g.:

.panel-heading {
    cursor: pointer;
}

Here's a jsfiddle with the modified html from the Bootstrap 3 documentation.

Solution 2:

Another way is make your <a> full fill all the space of the panel-heading. Use this style to do so:

.panel-title a {
    display: block;
    padding: 10px 15px;
    margin: -10px -15px;
}

Check this demo (http://jsfiddle.net/KbQyx/).

Then when you clicking on the heading, you are actually clicking on the <a>.