There is sometimes a problem getting Jquery to work with DOM elements that are created from a Kendo template, The following jsfiddle example illustrates my problem: http://jsfiddle.net/billmcknight/G2Xr2/ I can get Jquery to find and fill a textbox when the dom is not created thru a Kendo template but not when it is. By all rights the Jquery function should work the same way, one would think, but when jquery looks here for a template-based input, it can't find it and update it. There are probably ViewModel ways to do this, but I am wondering what is the right way to make Jquery behave correctly?