Use telerik controls in pure Javascript with JQuery or other libraries

[kashif]

Hi,

I am developing an Excel Add-in for a client and clients requirement is not to use jQuery. Now I need to add a combo box to a page in it, and convinced client to use telerik combo box for it, but I am still unable to decide which one I need to download to avoid dependency on jQuery or other frameworks.

[Lyuboslav]

Hello Kashif,

The Kendo UI for jQuery components are entirely based on jQuery, thus I am afraid that there is no way to avoid dependency on jQuery when using the Kendo jQuery Components.

However, if you need to load not the entire Kendo UI for the jquery library, but only the scrips needed for the ComboBox, you could create a custom bundle of scripts as you can see in the following link:

- https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/intro/scripts/what-you-need#creating-your-own-custom-bundles

As you could see, here is presented the scripts you needed for the given Kendo Component, Combobox in your way.

However, with the bundle above the jQuery library still will be needed.

Let me know if you have additional questions.

Regards,
Lyuboslav
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[kashif]

Thanks for the guidance. One more question related to solution you provided, there is no option to download style/css files for it. How can I get them related to combobox only?

[Neli]

Hi kashif,

I am afraid that the styles could not be loaded or downloaded per widget. You need to load an entire theme. You can customize the themes as described here, but you will still have the styles for all the components.

Regards,

Neli