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Learning Kendo UI Web Development

By : John Adams
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Learning Kendo UI Web Development

By: John Adams

Overview of this book

<p>Creating useful and attractive web sites for today’s audiences requires more JavaScript programming than ever before. JavaScript, however, isn’t easy and staying up to date with recent trends makes it even harder. You need a way to integrate the latest technology into your web site without having to start from the beginning.</p> <p>"Learning Kendo UI Web Development" shows you how to add the latest web features to your site without doing all of the work yourself. The experts at Telerik have created a fully supported code library that lets you focus on what makes your sites special while letting them focus on how that translates into cutting edge JavaScript code.</p> <p>This book will take you on a survey through Kendo UI for the web from the basic widgets that wrap input fields to the full page scaffolding widgets for setting up your site.</p> <p>Kendo UI for the web is a rich framework of JavaScript widgets and tools that will add immediate value to your web sites. Learn the full spectrum of what Kendo UI has to offer in specialized widgets that gather input from users by displaying calendars, sliders, or date pickers all the way up to widgets that structure your web pages through data-driven models in accordions, tabs, list views, and tree views.</p> <p>"Learning Kendo UI Web Development" is the perfect companion for navigating the broad features offered by Telerik in JavaScript web development.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Kendo UI Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Implementing the Splitter and TreeView Widgets
Index

Summary


The Kendo MVVM framework brings complicated interactive JavaScript into the realm of simple HTML attributes, templates, and View-Model functions. It is a very powerful feature and is one that you are likely to become very accustomed to using in your web pages. Keep in mind as you develop code that Kendo is a system in which features can be built together very nicely; for example, you could use a Kendo data source object as the source binding for a table or select list.

When you have powerful tools like this within your reach, you will find that function-rich pages become normal instead of exceptionally difficult and that your programming experience will be better than ever. In the next chapter, we will learn about the Kendo UI HTML Editor widget. This widget adds a full-featured HTML editing box to your web pages so that users can create content in a friendly input area with formatting, images, and hyperlinks. It is especially useful if users can contribute content on your site, such...