templates in widget

[Phil]

let's say my dataSource returns an id such as {id: 1}

and i'm using a template

columns: [ {field: "id", template: "<a href='javascript:;' id='#= id #' />#= id #</a>"} ...


how would I get it to show up as <a href="javascript:;" id="1">#1</a> as ##=id # won't work

[Nikolay Rusev]

Hello Phil,

The '#' symbol in  JavaScript is escaped with double backslash('\\'). All this is explained in the yellow box in the Templates Overview article. That said here is how the template should looks like:

"<a href='javascript:;' id='#= id #' />\\##= id #</a>"

//example
kendo.template( "<a href='javascript:;' id='#= id #' />\\##= id #</a>")({id: 1})

//will produce
"<a href='javascript:;' id='1' />#1</a>"

Regards,
Nikolay Rusev
the Telerik team