WebForms Menu Overview
Telerik RadMenu for ASP.NET AJAX is a flexible navigation component for use in ASP.NET applications.
Telerik RadContextMenu is a related control that shares the powerful features of RadMenu, but which acts as a context menu or popup menu.
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Key Features
Using RadMenu and RadContextMenu, you get
A client-side API that includes the ability to add, remove and update menu items and have these changes persist after a postback to the server.
Numerous options in how to define the item hierarchy, including
Binding to all ASP.NET declarative DataSource components, including SiteMapDataSource.
Extensive keyboard support, covering both web (access keys and tab) and windows (arrows).
Many options for controlling appearance, including
The ability to add images to items
Control over the layout of items.
Animations to customize the way child items appear and disappear.
Built-in skins to quickly change the look and feel.
The ability to create your own custom skins.
Support for right-to-left locales.
Support for templates.
Custom attributes to extend the capabilities of the menu items.
Lightweight markup (no tables).
Overlay support. RadMenu can display its items over IE windowed objects suchHTML select boxes, Flash movies, and so on. This built-in feature does not need to be set explicitly through a property.
Screen boundary detection.The list of child items expands to the opposite direction when necessary to prevent screen boundaries from being crossed.
Cross-page postbacks, which let you direct postbacks from the menu to a different Web page.
Support for ASP.NET validation.
Support for all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 5.5 and above, Netscape 7.0 and above (PC -- Netscape 7.1 for Mac and Linux), Mozilla 1.0 and above (all operating systems),Firefox 0.8 and above (all operating systems), Opera 7.5 and above, and Safari 1.3 and above.