When I use document.getElementById(...) to get a dock and then call dock.SetHandle(dock), it works perfectly. When I use jQuery to find the same element it finds the element and d.length has a length of 1, but then it crashes when you try to use dock.sethandle(dock). It fails when it tries to call Sys.UI.DomElement.removeCssClass(this._handle,"rdDraggable"); Is something in my jQuery clashing with the Telerik jQuery controls? How can I work around this?