In this tutorial, We will implement collapsing responsive navigation bar using ASP.NET menu control and Twitter Bootstrap. Lets start with the default view of ASP.NET Menu control as follows:

 <asp:Menu ID="NavigationMenu" runat="server" CssClass="menu" EnableViewState="false"                   IncludeStyleBlock="false" Orientation="Horizontal">
                    <Items>
                        <asp:MenuItem Text="Home" ToolTip="Home">  </asp:MenuItem>
                            <asp:MenuItem Text="Music" ToolTip="Music">
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Classical" ToolTip="Classical" />
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Rock" ToolTip="Rock" />
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Jazz" ToolTip="Jazz" />
                            </asp:MenuItem>
                            <asp:MenuItem Text="Movies" ToolTip="Movies">
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Action" ToolTip="Action" />
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Drama" ToolTip="Drama" />
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Musical" ToolTip="Musical" />
                            </asp:MenuItem>
                      
                    </Items>
                </asp:Menu>

1. We will update the default UI using bootstrap framework as in above image. To install Bootstrap, run the following command in the Package Manager Console:

Install-Package Twitter.Bootstrap

2. Add bootstrap CSS files in the page

	<link href="Content/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="Content/bootstrap-responsive.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <style type="text/css">
        .nav
        {
            width:100%;
            padding-left:15px;
        }

    </style> 

3. I like fixed top navigation bar, so we assign “navbar navbar-fixed-top” to menu control css class.

CssClass=”navbar navbar-fixed-top”

4. For list, use nav class to list

StaticMenuStyle-CssClass= “nav”

5. For active item, use activeclass

StaticSelectedStyle-CssClass=”active”

6. To display sub-menu as dynamic dropdown, we use dropdown-menu class

DynamicMenuStyle-CssClass=”dropdown-menu”

Now we get the layout as in the top image and the code looks as follows

  <asp:Menu ID="NavigationMenu" runat="server"  EnableViewState="false"  
            IncludeStyleBlock="false" Orientation="Horizontal" 
            CssClass="navbar navbar-fixed-top" 
            StaticMenuStyle-CssClass= "nav" 
            StaticSelectedStyle-CssClass="active"
            DynamicMenuStyle-CssClass="dropdown-menu" 
             >
            <Items>
              <!-- menu items -->    
            </Items>
        </asp:Menu>
 

Responsive Menu:

For background image and proper layout we put the menu in div (navbar > navbar-inner > container).
To implement a collapsing responsive navbar, wrap your navbar content in a containing div, .nav-collapse.collapse, and add the navbar toggle button, .btn-navbar.

        <div class="navbar">
            <div class="navbar-inner">
                <div class="container">
				 <!-- .btn-navbar is used as the toggle for collapsed navbar content -->
                    <a class="btn btn-navbar" data-target=".nav-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
                        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                    </a>
				<!-- Everything you want hidden at 940px or less, place within here -->
                    <div class="nav-collapse collapse">
                        <asp:Menu ID="NavigationMenu" runat="server" EnableViewState="false"
                            IncludeStyleBlock="false" Orientation="Horizontal"
                            CssClass="navbar navbar-fixed-top"
                            StaticMenuStyle-CssClass="nav"
                            StaticSelectedStyle-CssClass="active"
                            DynamicMenuStyle-CssClass="dropdown-menu">
                            <Items>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Home" ToolTip="Home"></asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Music" ToolTip="Music">
                                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Classical" ToolTip="Classical" />
                                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Rock" ToolTip="Rock" />
                                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Jazz" ToolTip="Jazz" />
                                </asp:MenuItem>
                                <asp:MenuItem Text="Movies" ToolTip="Movies">
                                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Action" ToolTip="Action" />
                                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Drama" ToolTip="Drama" />
                                    <asp:MenuItem Text="Musical" ToolTip="Musical" />
                                </asp:MenuItem>
                            </Items>
                        </asp:Menu>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>

ASP.NET Menu creates its own styles and classes which creates problem in Bootstrap working. So we remove some styles using jQuery.

 $(".nav li,.nav li a,.nav li ul").removeAttr('style'); 
 

To add down arrow for sub-menu indication:

 $(".dropdown-menu").parent().removeClass().addClass('dropdown');
 $(".dropdown>a").removeClass().addClass('dropdown-toggle').append('<b class="caret"></b>').attr('data-toggle', 'dropdown');

There is no mouseover event for mobile and onclick of ASP.NET menu causes postback. To avoid postback and remove click handler:

            $('.dropdown-toggle').attr('onclick', '').off('click');

Now on clicking parent menu item, sub menu will be displayed.

Here is the overall script structure:

 <script src="Scripts/jquery-1.9.0.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            //to fix collapse mode width issue
            $(".nav li,.nav li a,.nav li ul").removeAttr('style');

            //for dropdown menu
            $(".dropdown-menu").parent().removeClass().addClass('dropdown');
            $(".dropdown>a").removeClass().addClass('dropdown-toggle').append('<b class="caret"></b>').attr('data-toggle', 'dropdown');

            //remove default click redirect effect           
            $('.dropdown-toggle').attr('onclick', '').off('click');

        });
    </script>
    <script src="Scripts/bootstrap.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Hope, you enjoy it.