Drawer for Navigation

Updated on Oct 1, 2026

The Drawer is a different kind of a menu that is commonly used to navigate between pages in the app - it can generate the needed links for you through its UrlField when data binding.

To use the Drawer for navigating between pages:

• Add the Drawer to the MainLayout.razor of your app.

• Put the @Body tag in the <DrawerContent> tag of the drawer.

• Provide a collection of models that describe the pages you want the user to navigate to.

• The UrlField has a default value (Url) and that will be used if present in the model even if you do not define it explicitly.

• The component uses the NavigationManager from the framework to perform the navigation based on the value from the UrlField.

  • If you have a template that adds anchors, or use a click event to navigate the user yourself, this may lead to double navigation and errors, especially if your model has a field called Url. To avoid such problems, either let the Telerik component do the navigation and remove the application-specific code that does it as well, or remove the URL setting (either rename the model field, or point the UrlField to a non-existing field).

Use the Drawer for Navigation in MainLayout.razor

Example

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Additional Examples

• A GitHub sample project that showcases Drawer as side navigation.
• KB article on how to select a Drawer item when the page loads.

See Also

• Drawer Data Binding
• Drawer Templates
• Drawer Demos