WebMenus and WebBars for ASP.NET Features

  • Built-in AJAX Support

    Provide speed, usability, and scalability to your applications through AJAX. C1WebTreeView, C1WebTabStrip, C1WebToolBar, and C1WebTopicBar controls are AJAX-enabled. Create responsive applications that efficiently load item and group information on demand.

  • WYSIWYG Web Form Designers

    Are you ready to stop struggling with overly complex menu/toolbar designers? WebMenus and WebBars for ASP.NET makes it supremely simple to design your next toolbar or menu through its intuitive visual designers. With the collection editors, you can easily add, delete, and move items and sub-items in the hierarchy. Save valuable development time with preview mode; instantly preview your changes without having to run your program.

  • Support for Cascading Style Sheets

    You can apply existing cascading style sheets (CSS) to your menus by setting only one property. Now you can have your menus match the look and feel (for example, fonts, colors, and more) of your entire Web site quickly and easily.

  • Reusable XML-based Menus

    Menu trees (or sub-trees) can be saved into XML files to be dynamically loaded for at a later time.

  • Support for Vertical or Horizontal Menus

    WebMenus and WebBars for ASP.NET supports horizontal and vertical menus. You can define the layout orientation of the menu by setting just one property.

  • Submenu Support

    WebMenus and WebBars for ASP.NET includes powerful submenu support including the ability to dynamically re-assign submenus and to inherit styles from Parent menu.

  • Enhanced Styles

    You can define and apply styles to the whole menu or to single menu items. With a style, you can customize the back color, border style, border width, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and the fore color. You can even disable the style for an entire menu or for one specific item.

  • Cross-browser Compatibility

    WebMenus and WebBars for ASP.NET supports multiple browsers, including Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, and Fire Fox 2.0 and higher.

  • Enhance Your UI with Windows XP and Microsoft Office Styling

    Consistently style your application with the built-in Windows XP and Office 2003 styles. Use the preview pane of the Auto Format dialog box to view the control with the theme before it is applied.

  • Support for Images and Pictures

    Menu items can have their own images. You can also apply a picture as the background for your menus.

  • Take Full Programmatic Control Over Your Menus

    Besides the visual designer, you can programmatically change any aspect of your menu and submenus using the rich object model of the WebMenus and WebBars for ASP.NET. You can easily add or delete new items through code.

  • Client or Server-side Event Handling

    Menu and toolbar items' clicks can be handled either on the client (by scripts or URLs attached to items) or on the server (by event handlers in your code).

  • Create Titles within Your Menu

    You can create a caption within your menu or submenus. A caption looks like a regular item and, as like a regular item, its appearance can be individually customized but cannot be clicked.

  • Show Messages in Browser Status Bar

    Custom messages can be displayed in the browser's status bar when the mouse hovers over an item.

  • Keyboard Navigation

    To enhance the end-user experience, WebMenus and WebBars for ASP.NET supports access and shortcut keys for all of its items. Access keys are used for navigating the entire user interface and typically use the ALT key plus the specified access key. Shortcut keys are commonly used to perform a quick action such as opening a menu item and they use the CTRL key plus the specified shortcut key.