# Accordion control question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accordion-control-question/296505>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 15, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accordion-control-question/296505 "2009-09-15T19:09:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpthk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aca169/32.png) [@cpthk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cpthk)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accordion-control-question/296505/1 "2009-09-15T19:09:58Z")

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What’s the difference between selectedChild property and selectedIndex property?

I read the documentation, both seems to be setting currect active accordion. selectedChild can be only used in actionscript, but other than this, what’s the difference?