Change Grid.editable at runtime

[Ross Micheals]

A grid being 'editable' can be set during initialization. Can this be set at runtime as well? I have a 'edit' mode that I would like to use to enable/disable editing of the Grid contents. I see in the documentation that Grid.editable can be set at initialization, but I don't see how it can be changed at runtime (after initialization to use the documentation's terms.)

[Alexander Valchev]

Hello Ross,

Thank you for getting in touch with us.

I am afraid that what you would like to achieve is not supported. Edit mode of the Grid widget is set during the initialization and cannot be changed after that.

Kind regards,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

[Ross Micheals]

Bummer. What is the best practice for recreating the grid at run time? I've been using:

    $('#grid').data('kendoGrid').destroy();
    $('#grid').html('<div id="grid"></div>');

Is that sufficient, or is there more I need to do?

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Ross,

The following code will create invalid mark-up:

$('#grid').html('<div id="grid"></div>');

<div id="grid" data-role="grid" class="k-grid k-widget" style="">
    <div id="grid"></div>
</div>

Please consider using jQuery's empty method.

Kind regards,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

[Ross Micheals]

Great! Glad I asked.