Layout

• DIV-based panels
• Horizontal / Vertical split orientation
• Multiple resizable/collapsible/fixed-size/auto-fill panels in a container
• Multiple levels of nested containers
• Container resizes with browser window
• Support for full browser window height / width
• IFRAME in a panel

Behaviors

• Live refresh of contents while resizing
• Constraints on panel sizes: min/max/step sizes
• Oversized thumbs allow users to grab thin splitters easily
• Show splitter buttons only on mouse-over
• Panel states, and positions of splitter bars and scrollbars persist across postbacks
• Server-side event for panel state change

Appearances

• Customizable via CSS, Themes, and object properties
• Support margins, borders, and padding
• Support background color, background image
• Customizable splitter bar thickness, thumb image, mouse-over cursor, and other appearances
• ASP.NET 2.0 Themes support

ASP.NET AJAX

• Works with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX
• Customized UpdatePanel for better programmatic access and design-time support
• Panel state and size updatable via AJAX postback, even panel is not an UpdatePanel

Client API

• Selected panel properties accessible with JavaScript
• Client-side events for panel resize or state change

Dynamic Panels

• Panels and their contents can be created dynamically at run-time
• Panel sequence can be rearranged at run-time

Design Time

• Excellent design-time support for Visual Studio 2005 / 2008
• You can work comfortably in both Design and Source Views
• In Design View, server controls can be drag-and-dropped to panels, and contents can be visually edited in the same way as the default .NET Panel class
• In Source View, the code structure is natural and highly intuitive

Browser Support

• Supports all major browsers, and various modes (quirks/strict)
• No more browser-hacks
• Consistent box-model

System Requirements

License