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    Styling Forms Like A Pro With Kendo UI

    If you are like me, then nothing makes you feel like more of a failure in life than CSS. There was a GIF being circulated a few weeks ago that sums up how I feel about CSS so poetically. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with CSS as a specification. There are many people who can do unbelievable things with it. For me, it's just never clicked. I've been writing CSS for a long time and studying it for a long time as well. It just doesn't seem to be getting any better. This seems to be especially true with forms. As a web developer, I tend to create a lot of forms and it's always a struggle.
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
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    The KendoUI-Backbone Integration Project And Repository

    Derick Bailey is working on better support for Kendo UI and Backbone.js integration, and wants you to help! Come see how to get started, what the integration project is currently able to do, and where it might go from here.
    March 10, 2025 5 min read
  • Web

    A Facebook Style MultiSelect

    This latest release of Kendo UI includes another very common UI component made famous by Facebook: The Multi Select. At it's most basic level, the MultiSelect is an enhancement on the standard HTML <select> element. It allows the user to pick multiple items, each of which are represented by an autonomous element within the select.
    May 27, 2021 5 min read
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    Hijacking .toJSON For Fun And Profit

    In my previous post on JSON, I covered the basics of what a JSON document is, and showed a few very simple things that can be done to produce them. In this post, I want to expand on one of those methods, toJSON, and show how to produce a custom JSON document for any JavaScript object, no matter what framework is serializing the object ...
    May 27, 2021 6 min read
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    New Kendo UI Widget: The Tooltip

    If you've had enough of Clippy, but you still can't get enough Tooltip, make sure to grab Kendo UI, then head over to the Tooltip Demos and of course the Tooltip Docs. This is a widget that I am very excited about as Tooltips are such a quick and easy way to get some extra info to your user without having to occupy precious space in your UI.
    June 10, 2025 5 min read