<div class="container">
  <h1>Slidin' Slidey Things</h1>
  <div class="slides">
    <div class="slide">
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      <div class="content">
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      </div>
    </div>
    
    <div class="slide">
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      <div class="content">
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      </div>
    </div>
    
    <div class="slide">
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      <div class="content">
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      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
@import "bourbon";

$primary-color: hsl(350, 70, 60);

.slides {
  position: relative;
  @extend .cf;

  .slide {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0; // Have to declare this for transition: top to work
    width: calc(33% - 1em);
    max-height: 3.5em; // Kind of a magic number
    margin: 0.5em;
    padding: 1em;
    background: darken($primary-color, 20%);
    color: white;
    float: left;
    overflow: hidden;
    
    transition: max-height 0.25s       ease-in-out,
                width      0.25s 0.25s ease-in-out,
                left       0.25s 0.5s  ease-in-out,
                top        0.25s 0.75s ease-in-out;
    
    // This is probably the jankiest part
    @for $i from 1 through 3 {
      &:nth-child(#{$i}) {
        left: #{($i - 1) * 33.3333%};
      }
    }
 
    
    > a {
      display: block;
      padding-bottom: 1em;
      font-family: 'Oswald';
      text-transform: uppercase;
      text-decoration: none;
      color: lighten($primary-color, 15%);
      transition: color 2s;
    }
  }
  
  .slide.active {
    position: absolute;
    top: 4.5em;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    max-height: 20em;
    float: none;
    
    transition: top        0.25s 1s    ease-in-out,
                left       0.25s 1.25s ease-in-out,
                width      0.25s 1.5s  ease-in-out,
                max-height 0.25s 1.75s ease-in-out;
    
    a { color: white; }
  }
}

/** PAGE STYLES **/
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:300|Oswald);

*, *:before, *:after { @include box-sizing(border-box); }

html, body { width: 100%; height: 100%; }

html { font-size: 62.5%; }

body {
  background: $primary-color;
  font-family: 'Lato', sans-serif;
  font-size: 2em; 
  line-height: 1.5
}

.container {
  width: 90%;
  max-width: 1200px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

h1 {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 1em;
  font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif;
  font-size: 2em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
  color: lighten(hsl(120, 70, 70), 30%);
}

/**
 * For modern browsers
 * 1. The space content is one way to avoid an Opera bug when the
 *    contenteditable attribute is included anywhere else in the document.
 *    Otherwise it causes space to appear at the top and bottom of elements
 *    that are clearfixed.
 * 2. The use of `table` rather than `block` is only necessary if using
 *    `:before` to contain the top-margins of child elements.
 */
.cf:before,
.cf:after {
    content: " "; /* 1 */
    display: table; /* 2 */
}

.cf:after {
    clear: both;
}

/**
 * For IE 6/7 only
 * Include this rule to trigger hasLayout and contain floats.
 */
.cf {
    *zoom: 1;
}
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$('.slide a').click(function () {
  $('.slide.active').removeClass('active');
  $(this).closest('.slide').addClass('active');
  return false;
});

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