Nav Control

When I choose a nav control (vertical or horizontal) which just shows 1 level of items (so doesn't require any expanding of child pages), can you please render it out as a simple UL\LI list instead of the bloatly RadMenu\RadTabStrips?...when it's just a simple list of items their functionality is pointless and just causing extra styles and scripts to load when there's no interaction

Hi Steve,

Thank you for contacting us and for your suggestion. Actually, there is an option to create a custom navigation control to suit your requirements. We use radmenu, because it's flexible and comes with a wide range of features. It offers 12 build-in skins and you could also use our style builder to easily create new ones and apply them to your navigation. I'm sending you some more information about the classes, used in the radmenu and hopefully this will make customizing it easier for you.

Kind regards,
Zheyna Peleva
the Telerik team

No no, I know that you use the RadMenu and I know it's configurable and skinnable :)

But it's also a giant pile of script and style bloat when this is all you need for a one level menu

Hi Steve,

You've got point. I've attached a video on how to create a custom template for your navigation and in its declaration to set EnableEmbeddedScripts to false.

All the best,
Zheyna Peleva
the Telerik team

Thanks for the video :)

Yeah I know I can set the view template like that...but I think you'd agree in 99.9% of the cases with a simple menu like this (one-level, no interaction) EnableEmbeddedScripts should be false as PART of the control.

I guess what I'm saying is...while I may be able to do this, there's a good chunk of users who won;t know this, and therefore the CMS is generating extra bloat on their pages and therefore unnecessarily slowing things down (i know, arguably marginally)...but it should be up to telerik and sitefinity to make sure everything is as efficient as possible.

Perhaps a PITS issue?

Steve

Hi Steve,

Actually, disabling embedded scripts, in order to remove part of them, isn't a good idea, because then you'd have to add the disabled JavaScript resources from an external location. Please review this article in the RadControls documentation: http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/introduction-disabling-embedded-resources.html. If you disable the base scripts and you do not provide them manually you risk breaking the controls and all the client side functionality of this page. It does not seem reasonable making customers add the scripts by themselves.

However, since we find your suggestion for a clean navigation reasonable, we have logged a feature request for a simple UL\Li navigation. You can track its progress in PITS. In the mean time you can try something as below:

Hi Steve,

I found this control on our marketplace and I thought you might find it useful, regarding our previous conversation. Take a look at it and let me know if it offers the functionality you were looking for.

Regards,
Jen Peleva
the Telerik team

Hey Jen,
  Yeah I saw that there...and I can make my own really :)

The request though is for "Joe User" who doesn't know how but trusts that his CMS will render out the most optimal JS\CSS\Html it can right?

Steve

Hello Steve,

You are correct by stating that an inexperienced user may experience certain difficulties when trying to modify our horizontal menu. The logged PITS issue for a simple menu is in progress and we'll make sure to meet our clients' expectations by implementing it in Sitefinity soon. Thank you again for the useful suggestion.

Kind regards,
Jen Peleva
the Telerik team