PanelBar for ASP.NET AJAX

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Overview

Navigation in your website isn't something you can afford to ignore. Telerik PanelBar control for ASP.NET AJAX offers you a professional and flexible Outlook-style navigation system with minimum coding efforts. It allows you to build collapsible side-menu systems, with cutting edge animations and limitless styling capabilities. The control's highly efficient semantic rendering guarantees fast responsive time and minimum HTML output.

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Features

Semantic Rendering for Minimal HTML

The Telerik ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar control implements a highly efficient semantic rendering, which uses list items and CSS instead of tables. As a result the HTML output is significantly reduced, which dramatically improves performance.
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Powerful Databinding

The PanelBar control for ASP.NET AJAX supports binding to all ASP.NET 2.0 declarative datasources (SqlDataSource, SiteMapDataSource, XmlDataSource) as well as datasources introduced in .NET 3.5 (LinqDataSource, EntityDataSource, etc).

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Extensive VS.NET Design-time Support
Telerik ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar provides rich design-time support functionality making customizations and configurations very easy. Some of the key capabilities are:
- Applying skins in design time and easily switching between them
- Item Builder dialog for easy inline creation
- Design-time support for declarative data sources
- Template Design Surface for designing panel bar items templates
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Rich Client-side API

Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar control has a rich client-side API and comprehensive set of events guaranteeing full control over various functions performed on the client. You can easily add, delete, or update items at the client side and all the changes will be persisted on the server as well. The rich client-side API provides unbeatable performance and desktop-like experience.

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Scrollable PanelBar

The Telerik ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar control automatically sizes your panel items and creates a scroll if the content exceeds the panel so users can access all information with ease.

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Custom Attributes

RadPanelBar provides full support for custom attributes both on the server and on the client. It is easy to customize the item and include any attribute relevant for your scenario such as: additional text, value or image.

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Content Template Support

RadPanelBar fully supports templates. You can embed any content inside a RadPanelBar content template including HTML markup, ASP.NET server controls, and third-party controls (including other Telerik controls). Controls can be nested both in Visual Studio .NET Design mode and manually through code.

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Expand Behavior
The Telerik ASP.NET 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.
- Full Expanded Item: Only one item can be expanded at a time. The expanded area occupies the entire height of the RadPanelbar.
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Right-to-left Support

RadPanelBar for ASP.NET AJAX provides full support for Right-to-Left languages.

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XHTML and Accessibility Standards Compliancy

The Telerik ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar is completely compliant with the XHTML 1.1 requirements. RadInput also follows Section 508 compliance and falls under the W3C Compliance Level “AA”, as defined by the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0/2.0. RadPanelBar also has full support for keyboard navigation with Shortcuts, Access Keys and Arrow-key navigation.
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Validation

RadPanelBar provides a built in ASP.NET validation. The menu can trigger validation of other controls on the form when it performs a post-back to the server.

By default, all validators on the Web page must be successful before the postback can occur. You can assign a group name to a set of validators to ensure that validation occurs only for controls in the specified group. This enables you to have multiple separately-validated forms on a single page. You can use the ValidationGroup property when you want to perform separate validation tasks on the same page.

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Search Engine Friendly

The Telerik ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar completely follows the principles of Search Engine Optimization. The control's innovative rendering generates semantic lists and standard tags, which are properly recognized and highly valued by search engines. As a result, all content accessible through this control will be automatically indexed and ranked with no extra effort required from the developer.
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Animations

RadPanelBar supports a variety of expand and collapse animation styles for a great user experience. For each expand or collapse animation, you can specify Type and Duration. There is a list of predefined expand and collapse animation effects that you can choose from. You can further customize them with any settings relevant for your scenario.
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Industry-Best Cross-Browser Support

Following our long tradition of industry best cross-browser support, Telerik ASP.NET AJAX PanelBar doesn’t make an exception. The component supports all major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome and produces identical results.
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Appearance

The ASP.NET PanelBar 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, among others. The skins can be easily switched using a single property.

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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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