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This topic outlines some important general features of Telerik RadMenu v 4.0.

Please note that Telerik RadMenu v4.0 is not backward compatible with previous versions.

Compatibility and Compliance Features

  1. Wide cross-browser support
    Telerik RadMenu supports all major browsers and platforms (both on PC and Mac, where applicable):
    • Internet Explorer 5.0+;
    • all Gecko-based browsers - Mozilla 1.0+, FireFox, Netscape 7+;
    • Opera 7.5x+.
    • Safari 1.2+
  2. Support for ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
    Telerik RadMenu can run under both ASP.NET 1.x and ASP.NET 2.x. The control is compiled against both Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 (thus offering new specific features for Microsoft's next-generation IDE, Visual Studio .NET 2005).
  3. Standards compliance
    In conformance with the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Telerik RadMenu is level AAA compliant. The default HTML output is fully XHTML 1.1 compliant.

Functionality

  1. Hierarchical structures
    You can easily build multilevel menus using nested XML tag declarations or databind the control to hierarchical data sources.

    A hierarchical menu  
  2. Extensive keyboard support
    Telerik RadMenu delivers the convenience of desktop applications to the web with full support for:
    • shortcuts
    • access keys
    • arrow-key navigation 
      Keyboard support 
  4. Full design support
    Using intuitive dialogs, you can easily define menu structure and set the properties.
    The Builder dialog - a design-time feature
  5. You can achieve a wide variety of menu configurations by defining different property value combinations of Telerik RadMenu. These include:
  6. Support for context menus
    Building context menus (activated with a right mouse click) is seamless with Telerik RadMenu. The item structure and appearance are defined in the same way as for the other types of menus.
  7. Flexible skinning mechanism
    The entire control look and feel is defined by skins. You can easily modify existing skins, or create your own.
  8. Automatic detection of screen boundaries
  9. Templates
    You can embed any content inside a Telerik RadMenu template, including HTML markup, ASP.NET server controls, and other third-party controls. 
  10. Search engine and screen reader support
  11. Multi-language support

Rendering

  1. The semantic implementation of Telerik RadMenu uses a set of list items (rather than tables or DIVs) which dramatically trim the HTML output.

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