Items

The Items represent the content of the AppBar. The Items configuration accepts a collection of objects that will be rendered inside the AppBar. The component provides two types of items:

• Content Items
• Spacer

Content Items

You can configure the Content Items by using templates as per the following approaches:

• Use the Template option exposed by ContentItem to consume and render HTML.
• Supply a Kendo UI template to the item by using the TemplateId option.

The following example showcases how to use both template options to define the AppBar items.

    @(Html.Kendo().AppBar()
        .Name("appbar")
        .ThemeColor(AppBarThemeColor.Inherit)
        .Items(items=> {
            items.Add().Template("<a class='k-button k-button-solid-base k-button-solid k-button-md k-rounded-md' href='\\#'><span class='k-icon k-i-menu'></span></a>").Type(AppBarItemType.ContentItem);
            items.Add().TemplateId("search-template").Type(AppBarItemType.ContentItem);
        })
    )
    <script id="search-template" type="text/x-kendo-tmpl">
        <span class="k-textbox k-display-flex">
            <input autocomplete="off" placeholder="Search..." title="Search..." class="k-input">
            <span class="k-input-icon">
                <span class="k-icon k-i-search"></span>
            </span>
        </span>
    </script>

Spacer

The Spacer item creates a span element to add space and separate the content items from each other.

    @(Html.Kendo().AppBar()
        .Name("appbar")
        .Items(items=> {
            items.Add().Template("<a class='k-button k-button-solid-base k-button-solid k-button-md k-rounded-md' href='\\#'><span class='k-icon k-i-menu'></span></a>").Type(AppBarItemType.ContentItem);
            items.Add().Type(AppBarItemType.Spacer).Width("16px");
            items.Add().Template("<h3>AppBar Demo</h3>").Type(AppBarItemType.ContentItem);
        })
    )

See Also

• Overview of the AppBar HtmlHelper for ASP.NET MVC (Demo)
• Server-Side API