I am afraid what you trying to achieve is currently not supported in Kendo UI, however this idea sounds good and I will suggest to send it as a feature request at our UserVoice page. This way the community would be able to vote and comment it and if this suggestion turns out to be popular we will consider its implementation.
Regards,
Iliana Nikolova
the Telerik team
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