Overview

Telerik PanelBar for ASP.NET MVC brings professional Outlook-style navigation capabilities to your MVC views.  It allows you to build search engine-friendly collapsible side menus with jQuery-based animations effects and slick UI. The component is featuring highly efficient semantic rendering and min HTML output, flexible binding to sitemap and collection of objects, templates support.

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Features

• Semantic Rendering for Minimal HTML
• Powerful Databinding
• Load-on-Demand of Content
• Template Support
• Expanded Options
• Rich Client-side API and Events
• Search Engine Optimization
• Right-to-left Support
• Accessibility Support
• Animation Effects
• Visual Appeal

• Semantic Rendering for Minimal HTML

  The Telerik PanelBar for ASP.NET MVC implements a highly efficient semantic rendering which uses list items and CSS instead of tables. As a result the PanelBar renders clean and significantly reduced HTML output, which is important for loading performance and search engine optimization.
  

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• Powerful Databinding

  The PanelBar component features powerful databinding to any Sitemap or collection of objects.
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• Load-on-Demand of Content

  To improve performance and user experience the ASP.NET MVC PanelBar can load content on demand only for the current expanded section.
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• Template Support

  You can embed any content inside the ASP.NET MVC PanelBar template, including images, URLs, any HTML markup.
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• Expanded Options

  The Telerik ASP.NET MVC PanelBar allows you to control the way panel items expand via a single property. The supported modes are:
  
  

  • Multiple Expand Option: More than one item can be expanded at a time.
  • Single Expand Option: Only one item can be expanded at a time. Expanding an item collapses the previously expanded one.

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• Rich Client-side API and Events

  Telerik PanelBar for ASP.NET MVC has a rich client-side API and comprehensive set of events allowing for flexible customizations.
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• Search Engine Optimization

  Telerik PanelBar for ASP.NET MVC automatically renders clean, semantic HTML, designed to maximize the visibility of your content to the search engine crawlers. Additionally, all content accessible through this control will be automatically indexed and ranked with no extra effort required from the developer.

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• Right-to-left Support

  The Telerik PanelBar for ASP.NET MVC supports right-to-left UI and languages.

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• Accessibility Support

  Telerik has always been interested in supporting the needs of organizations that bridge the accessibility needs of people with disabilities. This is why the PanelBar, as all other Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, is Level A accessible in comjavascript:void(0);pliance with the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines 2.0.

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• Animation Effects

  Telerik ASP.NET MVC PanelBar supports a variety of expand animations, based on jQuery, for a great user experience. You can select among predefined animations and further customize them with any settings relevant for your scenario.
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• Visual Appeal

  The PanelBar ships with a rich library of professionally-designed skins that are crafted to look identical to the skins for RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. You can build rich UIs with the look-and-feel of Windows Vista, Office 2007, Outlook, or any of the 14 common skin themes. All skins are fully cross-browser compatible and tested, and all skins use optimized styling techniques, like CSS sprites and primitives, to ensure maximum performance.
  
  
  

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