.data on TreeView method page

[Paulo]

Hello,

On the TreeView Demo page (http://demos.kendoui.com/treeview/index.html) , select Methods tab -> expand.
You'll see the sample code: 

var treeview = $("#treeview").data("kendoTreeView");

  What is the ".data" function/method ?
  Thank you very much and sorry for this very basic question.

Paulo.

[Nikolay Rusev]

Hello Paulo,

.data is actually the jQuery .data method. When an element is initialized as Kendo widget (kendoTreeView),
i.e $("#treeview").kendoTreeView(); 
a reference to the kendo object is assigned to the element #treeview.
This reference is set via data method and the key is formatted as kendo+widget name (kendoTreeView).

Greetings,
Nikolay Rusev
the Telerik team