Which jQuery/css menu library for working with ASP.NET TreeView or Menu controls.

Question

I'm looking for a good jQuery or CSS, or combo, library to enance my left side menu in an an intranet application. I don't like the 'hover only' expand/collapse style of the ASP.NET Menu control on its own, and I don't like the 'icon-click only' expand/collapse style of the TreeView control on its own.

I plan on trying the CSS Control Adapters, to render the menu with some self-respect, i.e. as nested <ul> or <ol> elements instead of the usual orgy of tables. Beyond that, I need something to give a bit of style and menulike behaviour to these nested lists, and I would prefer a jQuery plugin for this. Which should I use?

Answer 1

For this I'd look at Superfish. Luckily, there's already full articles out there about how to rig this up with ASP.Net :)

If you don't like the styles though/behaviors available, it's really not that complicated to write the jQuery yourself to get exactly what you're after, if you had an illustration of the exact look/behavior you wanted I could point you in the right direction there, usually there's not much jQuery code to do this either.

Answer 2

Checkout 10 best jQuery menus and CSS Menu Control Example.

Answer 3

Hey ProfK,

If you're still not quite satisfied with your solution, and you need me to tweak our plugin for you, let me know. I can fix it in about 15 minutes ;)