The level of nesting in the panelbar hierarchy can easily be controlled using the LevelOfNesting property. For example when LevelOfNesting is set to 2, the panelbar is populated no further than the second level.

LevelOfNesting = "2"	LevelOfNesting = "3"

You can easily specify whether postings should be included (or excluded) from a panelbar using the combination of IncludePostings and HiddenPostings properties. When the IncludePostings property is set to true all postings specified by the StartChannel will be shown as panelbar items. You can then hide some of the postings by specifying them in the HiddenPostings property.

HiddenPostings = "default"	HiddenPostings = "StockFunds, Bond Funds"

In order to populate a panelbar from the Resource Gallery you need to set the StartCannel property. When StartChannel is set to "Channels", all folders in the channels are shown as panelbar items, otherwise only the specified folder and its members are shown.

StartChannel = "/Channels/"	StartChannel = "/Channels/FinancialSite/"

You can easily manage the state of a panelbar allowing it to retain the selected items during roundtrips to the server.

Using RadPanelBar you can build vertical menus that expand/collapse upon a mouse-click. This option is often preferred for most side menus.

RadPanelBar allows you to create impressive navigational elements by adding various expand effects: Fade, Stretch, Gradient Wipe, Pixelate, etc. (available in Internet explorer only)

You can specify the initial state of RadPanelBar. Depending on the design specifics of your site you can have them initially expanded or initially collapsed.

RadPanelBar can be configured so that only one menu is visible at a time. When you click on one menu it opens and, at the same time, collapses the currently open menu.

The content of each PanelItem is defined through a <CONTENT Template>. It can accommodate regular HTML or other controls (including other panelbars). Controls can be nested both in Visual Studio .NET Design mode or manually with the code.

RadPanelBar has full support for the Design mode of Microsoft^© Visual Studio .NET. This allows you to build, customize, and populate the panelbar in a convenient WYSIWYG environment.

RadPanelBar fully supports keyboard events. This means that you can associate a key to any panelbar item, so that the action (Href redirection, postback or JavaScript event) will be fired when the user presses the specified shortcut.

RadPanelBar provides an advanced yet easy to implement functionality for databinding. This allows the developer to programmatically bind a database to the panelbar items at run-time.

Themes allow for the separation of a control's look from its functionality. Each Theme is a folder with one or more .skin files and any additional necessary resources (such as .CSS files, images, etc). As a result, developers will be able to completely change the look of a web-application in an easy declarative manner.

RadPanelBar supports unlimited menu levels turning the panlebar into a mini-treeview component that can easily accommodate the page structure of any web-site.

RadPanelBar now provides complete XHTML compliance. The HTML markup of the component is fully XHTML 1.1 compliant.

RadPanelBar is now “Level A" (in conformance with the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0).