 <p><code>uib-accordion-group</code> provides you with a parameter <code>is-open</code>. You can just feed in a truthy value for newly created elements and they will be automatically opened.</p> <p>See the documentation for reference: <a href="https://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/#/accordion" rel="nofollow">https://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/#/accordion</a></p>