Why widget names and options have to be in lower case for declarative initialization?

[Olivier]

Hello!

Today I started to work on my first Kendo widget. After many hours trying to understand why the declarative initialization wasn't working, I realized that this works:

<div id="youtube" data-role="youtube" data-templatename="template"></div>

But this doesn't (even if the name of the widget is YouTube and the name of the option in the widget definition is templateName).

<div id="youtube" data-role="YouTube" data-templateName="template"></div>

I would like to understand the reason. Probably I didn't read the documentation well enough.

Just wanted to share my experience after a whole day debugging this problem :)

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hi Olivier,

We  have adopted this naming convention for our widgets, and it is written in this documentation article where data-attribute initialization is explained:

http://docs.kendoui.com/getting-started/data-attribute-initialization

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik

[Olivier]

Something new that I learned about Kendo!

Just a recommendation: It would be helpful to add that information to the articles where the process of creating a new widget is explained.

Thanks.

[Kiril Nikolov]

Hello Olivier,

Thank you very much for your suggestion. We will consider adding this information in the articles that you suggested.

Regards,
Kiril Nikolov
Telerik