How to remove all CSS styles coming with auto complete?

[Pavel]

How to remove all default CSS styles coming with auto complete for the input field? I prefer to use my own.

[Pavel]

Is there a documentation about the styles I have to overwrite to restyle the dropdown?

[Iliana Nikolova]

Hi Pavel,

There is no a built-in option for disabling the styling of a particular Kendo UI widget. In order to customize the appearance of the AutoComplete I can suggest the following:
-  Use the Kendo UI ThemeBuilder;
-  Use some browser inspector to check what HTML / CSS rules are applied in a given situation and override the styles using selectors with higher specificity (documentation link);
- Use jQuery API and remove the default classes applied to the widget. As an example: 

$("#input").removeClass('k-input').parent().removeClass("k-widget k-autocomplete k-header");

Regards,
Iliana Nikolova
Telerik