I am using a TelerikGrid, I want to put filters on several columns, I want to keep it clean so I disable the filter buttons and just set default operators, and I want to add a string placeholder to the already provided textbox and this is my issue. the only solution I could find was to use FilterCellTemplate which I have to rewrite the whole filtering and it is only for one column. I would think that there is a property for that that jus sets a placeholder for string searches.