FormDecorator for ASP.NET AJAX

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Overview

Ensuring a consistent look and feel across your application can be a daunting task, but Telerik’s free RadFormDecorator control comes to the rescue. This unique ASP.NET control steps in to fill the gap and provide you with an easy and flexible way to style the form controls in your application. The RadFormDecorator is designed to deliver the "finishing touch" in your truly rich UI and since it seamlessly integrates into your pages, it doesn't require any changes to the existing layout.

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Features

Styling Variety of Elements

Telerik ASP.NET FormDecorator allows you to beautifully style 10 types of elements: Buttons, CheckBoxes, RadioButtons, Fieldset, TextBox, Textarea, Labels, H4, h5, H6.

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Styling for ASP.NET DetailsView, FormView and GridView

You can easily configure the ASP.NET AJAX RadFormDecorator to decorate GridView, FormView and DetailsView controls. Changing the FormDecorator's Skin property to any of the built-in skins will also change the look of the controls.

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Flexible Rendering Mechanism

New, faster rendering mechanism - The new RadFormDecorator is more flexible, as it covers a number of scenarios that the old rendering was not possible to accommodate in a seamless cross-browser manner. Examples are: changing the text of a button on the client-side with javascript, attaching event handlers to a button, providing additional styling to fieldset elements, etc. The new rendering works much faster because it takes heavy advantage of the browser’s CSS engine. The old rendering relied stronger on JavaScript because of its IE6 support. Now the core implementation targets newer browsers, and the code is branched for IE6 where necessary. The new rendering also performs much better with partial page updates (AJAX)
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Wide Cross-Browser Support

Following our long tradition of industry best cross-browser support, Telerik ASP.NET FormDecorator doesn’t make an exception. The component supports all major browsers, including GoogleChrome, Opera and Safari for Mac and produces identical results.
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Easy Configuration

Configuring the ASP.NET AJAX FormDecorator by Telerik is really effortless. It takes only seconds to add it to your page and there are only two properties to consider - DecoratedControls as well as DecoratedZoneID. It takes a minute to check what the Decorator does and whether it is fit for a particular page or particular application.
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Ultimate User Experience
Besides giving you the freedom to easily style your page elements, Telerik ASP.NET FormDecorator delivers some additional extras and eliminates some well known glitches.
- Mouse over effects - RadFormDecorator allows you to add hover effects to buttons, check boxes and radio buttons. This advantage is easily achieved through pure CSS.
- Styling for disabled elements - Another cool feature in RadFormDecorator is that it provides different styles for disabled radio buttons, checkboxes and textboxes.
- Caching of images for IE - You know how frustrating can be when your background images flicker on mouse over. RadFormDecorator eliminates this problem under IE.
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Appearance

The ASP.NET FormDecorator by Telerik is shipped with a rich set of skins that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of Windows Vista, Office 2007, Outlook, etc.

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VS Plug-in for Testing RadControls

Telerik's automated software testing tool Test Studio employs a rich set of features to help you automate AJAX-intense web content. You can test complex UI actions like drag-and-drop, invoke JavaScript functions from your test code, and perform logging actions. Additionally, the test recorder makes it easy to wait on AJAX operations before executing a specific verification. What’s more, Test Studio is the best way to test RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. The powerful test recorder automatically detects the controls and exposes commonly used verifications. Learn more
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