How To

28 Mar 20183 minutes to read

Render NavigationDrawer from Code behind

NavigationDrawer can be rendered from the code behind by initializing the required properties in controller and passing those properties via ViewData or Model to the client side

The following code illustrates the initialization of NavigationDrawer properties in the controller.

C#

//Namespace to get the JavaScript (NavigationDrawer) component properties
using Syncfusion.JavaScript.Models;

namespace MvcApplication.Controllers
{
    public class NavigationController: Controller
    {
        public ActionResult NavigationDrawer()
        {

            //Initializing the NavigationDrawer model

            NavigationDrawerProperties NavigationObj = new NavigationDrawerProperties();

            //Initializing the NavigationDrawer content template other properties

             NavigationObj.ContentTemplate = new MvcTemplate<NavigationDrawerProperties>
            {
                RazorViewTemplate = (data) =>
                {
                    return "<div id='listview'><ul><li data-ej-text='Home'></li><li data-ej-text='Profile'></li><li data-ej-text='Photos'></li><li data-ej-text='Location'></li></ul></div>";
                }
            };

            NavigationObj.Width = 300;
            NavigationObj.TargetId = "target";

            //Passing NavigationDrawer properties using the ViewData

            ViewData["NavigationModel"] = NavigationObj;

            return View();
        }
    }
}

Binding the NavigationDrawer properties passed via ViewData from the controller in the client side as below.

CSHTML

<div class="navigation">

    <div id="target" class="drawericon e-icon"> Drawer</div>

</div>

@{
    Html.EJ().NavigationDrawer("navigationPane", (Syncfusion.JavaScript.Models.NavigationDrawerProperties)ViewData["NavigationModel"]).Render();
}

<script>

//render listview
    $(function () {
        $("#listview").ejListView();
    });

</script>

<style>

     .drawericon {
            background-position: center center;
            background-repeat: no-repeat;
            height: 45px;
            width: 32px;
            background-size: 100% 100%;
            padding-right: 10px;
        }

        .drawer icon:before {
            content: "\e76b";
            font-size: 24px;
            height: 26px;
            line-height: 24px;
        }

         body {
        background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #ece9d8;
        }
</style>