Alternative ASP.NET Menu Control - Accessible and Standards Compliant

Hi ALL,

I am just submitting this for information, also to add a relevant topic within asp.net forums for search engine searches regarding an alternative ASP.NET Menu control that is accessible and standards compliant.

First of all, I would like to thank Chris Love for his comment on one of my posts which introduced me to the CSS friendly Menu Control.

The built-in ASP.NET Menu control is encapsulated as a menu of browser incompatibilities and accessibility problems.

The CodePlex community has developed a CSS adapter solution for ASP.NET menu control (and lots of other control i.e. Tree view, Grid view etc.) to override its rendering mechanism using plainly stylesheets and C# compiled javascripts. I have tested its compatibility and accessibility and worked seamlessly compliant to WCAG.

You can download this in http://cssfriendly.codeplex.com/

This is very simple to implement in just 4 easy steps:

Add a reference to your CSSFriendly.dll in your project
Create a .browser file (you can copy the content from the download file) - this basically tells your control to inherit itself from your adapters
Link a stylesheet to your page - this is where you will define the style of your menu
On your menu control, add this attribute in <asp:Menu> tag: CssSelectorClass="YourCSSFriendlyMenuStyle"

The download file contains all the information you will need including full control on customization.

I hope this will prove helpful as reference to all especially to search engine searchers.

Best regards,

Jeremy Ramos

Re: Alternative ASP.NET Menu Control - Accessible and Standards Compliant

In case you were not aware, the ASP.NET 4 version of the ASP.NET Menu control has been completely rewritten to make its HTML output accessible and standards compliant. For more information, see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s57a598e(VS.100).aspx

Re: Alternative ASP.NET Menu Control - Accessible and Standards Compliant

tdykstra

In case you were not aware, the ASP.NET 4 version of the ASP.NET Menu control has been completely rewritten to make its HTML output accessible and standards compliant. For more information, see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s57a598e(VS.100).aspx

Thanks for the information tdykstra. Yes I am aware of this. It is great that you pointed this out for people referencing here in this thread. Cheers mate.

Re: Alternative ASP.NET Menu Control - Accessible and Standards Compliant

Thanks for the great new. I hate the menu control of older asp.net version, it contains too much table tags. I believe we have tried other controls and adapters that produce <div> instead, but unfortunately it not work well if menu has some levels ... I must give it a try