RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX

Telerik RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX is a flexible navigation component for use in ASP.NET applications.

Telerik RadContextMenu is a related control that shares the powerful features of RadMenu, but which acts as a context menu or popup menu. Using RadMenu and RadContextMenu, you get

• A client-side API that includes the ability to add, remove and update menu items and have these changes persist after a postback to the server.

• Numerous options in how to define the item hierarchy, including

  • Defining items statically at design time.

  • Creating items dynamically in server-side code.

  • Creating items dynamically in client-side code.

  • Loading Items from an XML file or string.

  • Loading Items from a Web Service.

  • Binding to all ASP.NET declarative DataSource components, including SiteMapDataSource.

• Extensive keyboard support, covering both web (access keys and tab) and windows (arrows).

• Many options for controlling appearance, including

  • The ability to add images to items

  • Control over the layout of items.

  • Animations to customize the way child items appear and disappear.

  • Built-in skins to quickly change the look and feel.

  • Style sheet support for individual items.

  • The ability to create your own custom skins.

  • Support for right-to-left locales.

  • Support for templates.

• Custom attributes to extend the capabilities of the menu items.

• Lightweight markup (no tables).

• Compliance to multiple standards.

• Overlay support. RadMenu can display its items over IE windowed objects such HTML select boxes, Flash movies, and so on. This built-in feature does not need to be set explicitly through a property.

• Screen boundary detection. The list of child items expands to the opposite direction when necessary to prevent screen boundaries from being crossed.

• Cross-page postbacks, which let you direct postbacks from the menu to a different Web page.

• Support for ASP.NET validation.

• Support for all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 5.5 and above, Netscape 7.0 and above (PC -- Netscape 7.1 for Mac and Linux), Mozilla 1.0 and above (all operating systems), Firefox 0.8 and above (all operating systems), Opera 7.5 and above, and Safari 1.3 and above.