Hello Mike,
Initializing the treeview directly from JSON is faster, as it does not need to parse the DOM tree (which, as every DOM operation, is slow):
$("#tree").kendoTreeView({
dataSource: [
{ text: "foo" }
]
});
Using append() to add the items is as fast as initializing the treeview from JSON.
Greetings,
Alex Gyoshev
the Telerik team
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