Hi,

I am currently trying to upgrade to Kendo UI JQuery v2026.1.212 and have noticed changes related to the way messages are posted to the chat. In previous versions (v2025.2.702) I could do the following:

function getChatUser(){
 return {
     id: kendo.guid(),
     name: "Admin",
     iconUrl: "/Images/chatIcon.svg"
 };
}    
 
 function postMessages(){
 const myChat = $("#chat").data("kendoChat");

 const myCustomTemplate = kendo.template($("#custom-template").html());
 kendo.chat.registerTemplate("custom", myCustomTemplate);

 const MD_MESSAGE = kendo.template("<div class='k-message'><div class='k-bubble fw-chat-bubble'>#= DOMPurify.sanitize(marked.parse(text)) #</div></div>");
 kendo.chat.registerTemplate("md_message", MD_MESSAGE);
 
myChat.renderMessage({
    type: "md_message",
    text: "**Hello** this is a text *markdown* message"
}, getChatUser());

 myChat.renderMessage({
     type: "custom",
     html: `<img src="/Images/chatIcon2.svg" width="400" height="350" alt="" />`
 }, getChatUser());

 }

How do I post messages to the chat referencing a template with v2026.1.212?

Thanks,

Euan

Hi,

In version 2026.1.212 Kendo Chat is no longer calling the suggestionsTemplate method.

I am following your example on how to make a own suggestionsTemplate here:
https://www.telerik.com/kendo-jquery-ui/documentation/api/javascript/ui/chat/configuration/suggestionstemplate

I made a Kendo Dojo UI from your example:
https://dojo.telerik.com/DmuxfMWh

As you can see the method is never called.

Hi,

Kendo Chat with skipSanitization: true are still changing the messages so the outputted html breaks since it get A href tag inserted in bad places.

For example if I try to render an img tags it gets broken since a new A tag are being inserted in it so the html in the output message are invalid.

If the "src" url of the image tag doesnt starts with "https:" then it works. So now I need to do something like this to get it working:

let url = "https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/content/web/Customers/LONEP.jpg";
url = url.replace("https:", "");
// becomes "//demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/content/web/Customers/LONEP.jpg"

Same issue with A href tags url. If they contains a query string then they also became broken. This can also be fixed by removing https: so they just start with //. Works until you have www in them, then it will never work.

Here is examples of this issue:
https://dojo.telerik.com/RrwHKAfv

I  want to use a markdown parser (https://www.npmjs.com/package/marked) with DOMPurify.sanitize for my chat but doenst really work right now.

Am I doing something wrong or have I missunderstood what "skipSanitization: true" means?

Best Regards,
Douglas

Hi,

Does the chat control support rendering messages that are in Markdown format? For Example:

**James Smith**

- Department: Development

- Role: Senior Developer

This should show James Smith in bold. If the chat control does not support this can you suggest any approaches to achive this?

Thanks,

Euan

Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to display an image as a response in the Chat control? For example, respond with a png to a users question as oppose to a textual respone. I noticed the renderAttachments method but I am not sure if that is the correct approach.

Thanks,

Euan

Hello,

I am using the jquery chat widget as a virtual assistant on the right corner of the page and would like the ability change the message box to a textarea as opposed to an input so all the wording that is outside the scrollable view area is visible.

I see in the angular version of this widget that this is possible, is there a similar feature for the jquery chat version?  Or even the .net Core version?

Thanks,

Arthur

Hi,

I know that there are hacky workarounds to still achieve this, but I was wondering if you could add this to your api please. At present if you change your chat widget then someone will probably need to change our code also.

For example, we load 10 chat messages at a time and when the user scrolls to the top we get the next 10 messages and prepend them to the top of the list and update the scrollbar position accordingly. If we use your api all messages are added to the bottom.

Cheers

Simon

Hey everybody! 

There must be something simple that I am missing.

I currently have a template set up to render through renderMessage() which runs for every message on initialization. 
Loosely based on this. Thank you Martin for this one.
https://www.telerik.com/forums/set-date-on-rendermessage-in-kendochat

The issue is that when I hit the send button and it goes into the post() method, this template no longer applies and it seems to reverts back to default.

How do I wire up my template to be used by default on send button click? 

Best, 
Jeff 

We are exploring using Kendo Chat for JQuery to support LLM interactions but are finding the control very limiting compared to Bootstrap 5 MDB.  Does anyone know if you can:

• support bold and rich html formatting within the chat messages?  The LLM is correctly responding with formatting such as <strong> but this is not respected within the control.
• add ability to pass additional data in the chat post - doing this results in [Object, Object] in the chat window itself