SP2010 Branding Tip #7 – Using Simple Rendering in SharePoint Navigation – Randy Drisgill

One of the really cool enhancements in SharePoint 2010 is the addition of the UseSimpleRendering property to the control. When UseSimpleRendering is set to True, the SharePoint navigation menu is rendered using a cleaner unordered HTML list.

After some trial and error I was able to duplicate the current SharePoint 2007 top navigation for SharePoint911 using the Simple Rendering:

One last note, if all of this new cleaner HTML scares you and you don’t want to spend the time to convert your old CSS to work with the new Simple Rendering, you can always turn it off by setting UseSimpleRendering=”False” in the control. With this set to false, the old less clean Table based navigation is used and all of your old CSS styles should work perfectly in SharePoint 2010.