Hi Som,
Indeed the Expanded property is not serialized at all now when the node has no children. Perhaps this is done to save a few bytes of the rendered markup. Anyway I recognize this as a bug and have logged it for fixing.The fix will be incorporated in the upcoming internal builds. I have also updated your telerik points.
Regards,
Albert
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